In other national news, the New York Yankees, a baseball team, finally announced the end of their ban on facial hair. The edict was placed by their former owner, George Steinbrenner, when he bought the team in 1973, because he was a tyrant who enjoyed bossing people around, diminishing them in the public eye in the belief that humiliation inspires better performance.
That Steinbrenner was a cranky egotistical martinet is beyond debate; the question is why it took his son Hal fifteen years since the old man's death (2010) to allow people playing a game to wear their hair and beard as they wish.
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And now, Forbes magazine is saying "the Yankees rule requiring all players to be clean shaven very likely violated New York City employment law, and possibly even federal labor laws."
Not to mention that the silly policy probably caused some free agent players to choose to sign with any of the other big-league clubs, all of which treat their players as adults.
Forbes also correctly points out that if the vice president of the United States can ankle around wearing a beard and guyliner, some joker patrolling left field for the Bronx Bombers can do likewise.
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