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Stephanie Apstein

Yankees’ Wives Carrying On Team’s Abandoned Battle Against Beards

Judge may not have to shave because of the Yankees anymore, but his wife, Samantha Bracksieck, still prefers he come home clean. | Jason Miller/Getty Images

As the New York Yankees trimmed away half a century of history, Jordan LeMahieu worried only about the next day. She turned to her husband, Yankees utilityman DJ, and made her stance clear: You’re still shaving, though.

When principal owner Hal Steinbrenner announced two weeks ago that he was amending his team’s 49-year-old “Neatness Counts” policy and would now allow what he described as “well-groomed beards,” many of the Yankees celebrated. Many of their wives did not. 

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