Bernie Williams, the four -time World Series champion with the New York Yankees, will be in Tampa, Florida, soon for this year’s spring training to see how her former team is emerging for another season.
However, while he is there, there may be a fairly marked difference in terms of the appearance of those players due to the scraping of a tradition to which he was accustomed during his game days.
The general managing partner of the Yankees, Hal Steinbrenner, made the shocking announcement that the non -facial hair policy, that his father, the deceased George M. Steinbrenner, could in 1976, would no longer be.
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The former New York Yankees gardener Bernie Williams, at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruz-USA Today Sports)
As such, players, coaches and members of the Yankees staff can have “well -arranged beards.” The newcomers such as the Devin Williams closer, who has already shaved his characteristic beard of his days with the Milwaukee brewers, are among those who could begin to let their facial hair come back again.
For Williams, he will undoubtedly get used to the Yankees who are allowed to do this, so he told Fox Digital that he had “mixed emotions” about this change, one that ends 50 years of a basic element of the Yankees.
“I have some mixed emotions because, as a young player, it is a bit difficult to keep that cut and shave [look] Day after day, “Williams said, laughing, since he also discussed his important tune with the pulmonary health initiative.” As a rebel child who practices professional sports, you get all these praise and feel that you are at the top of the world and you can do what you want.
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“But I think that particular rule, in the first place, kept us together as a team, something that everyone had to do. It didn’t matter how much money you were winning on the team, from the rookie, to the best paid player that everyone had to have that facial hair outside the road. That was common for the union.
“On the other side of the currency, it was a bit annoying to do it day after day.”
For Williams, the rule was something that caused the Yankees to stand out apart from the exclusive stripes.
“We needed to have this policy, people loved it,” he explained. “‘These guys are very clean and look great. I would like to partner with that team because they have this policy and want to represent themselves in the best possible way.'”
However, love for politics has changed clearly since it was the last in the game in 2006, and understands how changing times lead to the changing mentality.
“I understand the fact that people are going back, we live at a different time, and I guess it’s a bit modern to have a pleasant and well -fixed facial beard or hair,” he said.
However, where Williams draws the line is where the Yankees captain, Aaron Judge, practically did when he discussed the rule of facial hair, giving a free agent about joining the organization, which has the most professional sports titles of all time.
The former Yankee Bernie Williams touches the national anthem on the guitar during the induction ceremony of the National Baseball Hall 2021 on Wednesday, September 8 in Cooperstown, New York. The ceremony honored the members of the 2020 class: Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker. (IMAGN)
“I think, in my mind, and I don’t know how other people take it, facial hair is just something trivial,” Williams said, smiling. “If you don’t want to play for one of the best sports franchises because you have a problem with facial hair, I mean, some people cannot even grow a beard correctly. So, I think it’s a trivial point, and you have worse problems if you think,” I’m not going to play for the Yankees because I’m not going to cut my hair. “Those would be other problems with which he has to deal with.”
The Yankees are also making some changes in the music that is reproduced in the Bronx after losses at home, demonstrating that the organization is looking to modernize a bit.
However, Williams knows the tradition and nostalgia that the Yankees will remain.
Then, perhaps presenting another shirt, something about which fans have debated for years, will not still be in the cards.
The former New York Yankees gardener, Bernie Williams, #51, in the Yankees Old Timers 2019 Day game at Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruz-USA Today Sports)
Then again …
“I think if you do it with good taste, you don’t try to overcome people with a tremendous and sudden change. You do it progressively with good taste, I don’t see anything bad in that,” Williams said.
Williams will have to take a look at the beards first.
