Along with the entire 40-man roster, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone can sport a beard this season for the first time while donning the iconic pinstripes. Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced Friday that the Yankees are lifting their strict facial hair policy that was in place for over 50 years.

The New York Yankees are making a major change to their organization, and they'll be ending a policy that has stood for nearly 50 years. On Friday, Yankees chairman Hal Steinbrenner announced that the team would be ending the long-standing facial hair policy instituted by his father George back in

Don Mattingly, the ultimate team guy who was briefly suspended by the Yankees in the early ’90s for long hair (the “no long hair” policy remains), took a lighthearted approach in an exchange Friday with The Post. “Times change!!” Mattingly wrote. “We also used to wear suit and ties. And there were rotary phones.”