"The Yankees, as any Yankee fan will tell you, don’t have a mascot. They don’t put names on the back of their jerseys. And most crucially, they haven’t had a single player with a goatee, Van Dyke, or soul patch since 1976. This was the bedrock of Yankee exceptionalism."

— Steve Rushin in The Atlantic: Goodbye to Baseball’s Most Anachronistic Rule