Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe matter of Frazier’s hair speaks to a deeper issue for the Yankees and baseball in general. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyHow to embrace tradition without being a slave to it? My younger self says, ‘Why can’t they have long hair and beards?’”Just where the Yankees draw the (hair) line is, of course, a bit fuzzy. It was an era of long hair and beards, epitomized by the mustachioed Oakland Athletics, whose owner paid players $300 to grow mustaches and who won three straight World Series titles. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“He always thought we should act differently,” Gossage said.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2017 10:52 UTC