The New York Yankees have abandoned their half-century prohibition of beards, a policy that was archaic even from its infancy. Now I find myself strangely, unexpectedly bereft, stroking my own beard ...

Ditch the razors and shaving cream, New York Yankees. On Friday, the Yankees scrapped their longstanding policy against facial hair, with MLB.com noting the franchise will allow players and ...

One blazing hot day in July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington ...