This Yankees team is about to look different than any other in a generation. Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced on Friday that the organization has amended its long-standing facial grooming policy,

The New York Yankees announced Friday morning that they are altering their longstanding facial hair policy. Players and uniformed personnel will now be allowed to have "well-groomed beards," team chairman Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement.

George Steinbrenner instituted the policy in 1976, three years after he bought the team, when the fashion of the era saw long hair and unkempt beards became commonplace. Steinbren