[Hemingway's Ghost]

My son's HS baseball coach knew that by installing a strict hair code (along w/gym time schedule, weightlifting, and review of the boys' report cards) he would weed out those who weren't serious about playing baseball.

Honestly, the strict gym time schedule, weightlifting, and academic standards undoubtedly did much more to help them than the haircut rule did. If you have long hair, you can't be serious about baseball? Here's simple proof hairstyle matters not a whit:

[PennsylvaniaMom]

LOL...we all know that all major leaguers are total conformists (aren't all millionaires). We can agree to disagree as to the merits of short hair on baseball players. Just as an aside though...during the soccer season both my husband and I found it interesting the number of other soccer parents who came up to us to comment on the 'clean cut' look of our son, and how they lamented the hairstyle choice of their own. In the greater scheme of these kids lives does the length of their hair mean anything...no. Does learning that when one agrees to a set standard (be it a sports team's regulations, a charter school's dress code, a mortgage payback form) you follow the guidelines you orginally agreed to mean anything...yes!

[Tallguy]

Johnny Damon cut his hair on joining the Yankees. The Yankees have always had a personal grooming rule, apparently.

Professional baseball players can basically do what they want unless the team puts it in their contract like the Yankees do. This is a charter school, so their is also a contract in operation — one that the parent agrees to.