George Steinbrenner

Monday, October 26, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Latest news updates about , George Steinbrenner cheers for Yankees as Yankees win the Pennant. Yankees outright victory over Angel was in sharp contrast to their outing against the same tem that they played two days ago. At that time Angels had tamed Yankees 6-7 giving a body blow to one of the best teams in the sport.

He was there on the field, applauding for his boys and supporting them throughout.

George Michael Steinbrenner III is an American billionaire businessman, and owner and the former principal executive of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made him one of the sport’s most controversial figures.

Steinbrenner is known as a hands-on executive, earning the nickname “The Boss”. His tendency to meddle in daily on-field decisions, and to hire and fire (and sometimes re-hire) managers led then-Yankees skipper Dallas Green to give him the derisive nickname “Manager George”.

While writing about George Steinbrenner, a biographer says, “Abusive, cruel, philanthropist, loyal, disloyal, good samaritan, phony, vengeful, manipulative, vindictive, delusional, a guy with a heart of gold, a real giver, financial deadbeat, bully, kind-hearted… Tampa Bay’s most famous resident, George Steinbrenner, has probably been called all these things and more at one time or another, but rarely have so many conflicting characterizations appeared in the space of one book. Now they have — in George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built The Yankee Empire, the laugh-out-loud biography by St. Petersburg author Peter Golenbock”.

George Steinbrenner

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