“Only by our numbers and our hair.”) Yankees relievers Will Warren, left, and Devin Williams, who has taken advantage of the team’s new stance on facial hair. / Thomas A. Ferrara/Getty ...

So the New York Yankees, at long last, have done away with their policy against facial hair. Perhaps Gerrit Cole wouldn’t have slept on covering first base in that same fateful fifth inning if ...

Some players had pushed the limits of the facial hair policy in recent years, growing more than five o’clock shadows, with Boone having to remind them at times that it was time to shave.

TAMPA, Fla. - Let there be beards in the Bronx. The New York Yankees, at long last altering a George Steinbrenner-era policy on facial hair, will allow players and personnel "to have well-groomed ...

The Yanks, of course, have had a long-withstanding policy since George Steinbrenner owned the team that players must not don facial hair below their lower lip. So, the lights out closer needed to ...