Not everyone is throwing away their razors in the New York Yankees clubhouse. A day after owner Hal Steinbrenner shocked baseball by announcing that he had rescinded the Yankees' total ban on beards, captain Aaron Judge expressed his surprise at the decision.

The Yankees announced Friday that they are amending long-standing rules requiring their players to be clean-shaven.

The New York Yankees have always been a "clean-cut" organization. Well, kind of.  It started in 1976 when George Steinbrenner implemented a policy to install order in his organization.

Aaron Judge with a beard? With the rollback of a decades-old New York Yankees team rule, that just might be possible.

The New York Yankees are breaking with their longstanding tradition of prohibiting players from wearing beards, reversing a controversial policy ushered in by late owner George Steinbrenner.

The New York Yankees have dropped their ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner