RIP: Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
In the history of the New York Yankees, there are three important phases. The first began when Babe Ruth in Boston fell into disgrace and into the Bronx to the core was an unbeatable team that featured Gehrig among others, the German-born Lou an important role. The lives of two was filmed in Hollywood. Because there are such figures it's not every day.
The second phase culminated in the fifties by the end of the career of JoeDiMaggio and is associated with players' names as Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle. At that time the Yankees were already so important in American popular culture that they became the main theme of a Broadway musical, later was staged in Hollywood. It is titled Damn 'Yankees , matching the mood in the rest of the country. These Yankees were just too good. And therefore hated and envied. Just think of the stir that caused the marriage of Joe DiMaggio to Marilyn Monroe. That was literally a dream marriage, because at that time would have dreamed of not only athletes, of advancing to the world of paparazzi and the gossip-postils.
went as this era had ended, the Yankees indeed written a lot of sports history, but were faced with a difficult phase. Then came George Steinbrenner, the descendant of a ship owner from Ohio who, with his money and his authoritarian nature of a new era in the American League heralded sports. From him to Jerry Jones with the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban in and to the (U.S., Russian) hyper-speculators who lost their way in the Premier League, leads a fairly straight line. And this phase was mirrored by the American entertainment industry in its own way. George Steinbrenner was in the nineties in Seinfeld, the most successful sitcom of all time, to a figure. While all the other roles in the series were fictitious, was Steinbrenner, nicknamed The Boss, he himself Special feature: You saw him mostly not from the front, but mostly from behind. His lyrics were spoken by an actor - in that clipped, squeezed out, harsh tone, for which he was known. Because George Steinbrenner was - at least in the U.S. - have become really famous.
His interventionist style on the Yankees led to different results. He bought an expensive player, changed coaches after a short time - the first produced very little. But he was right time to turn it into a position, the Yankees mystique in highly paid television contracts in local TV. Steinbrenner was the forerunner of that network of regional television channels, as one can not think away today. As a populist, he knew of course, put the city of New York under pressure The old stadium was one in which the Yankees had for a ridiculously low rent only a guest. In between, he threatened to move the club to New Jersey. Then he wanted to have a new stadium in Manhattan, for in his dingy Bronx Yankees-fire seemed increasingly angeschabt.
But eventually he was put in a position and its million a team on its feet, which won the World Series again. With the success from the mid-nineties - and certainly with age - Steinbrenner was gracious and tolerant. Eventually he was managing from his family and enjoyed the sport returns to its work. The monument, he leaves to posterity, a brand new stadium next to the old, that was opened last year.
Steinbrenner's role as a supporter of Richard Nixon, he had almost taken to jail. He got away with a fine. His attempt to the reputation of the former Yankee Dave Winfield professionals to damage dealt him a three-year suspension from Major League Baseball. Actually, the verdict was life imprisonment. But after three years he has been rehabilitated. Just in time for the course of his players who seemed unbeatable zwischen 1996 and 1999.
Steinbrenner died today at the age of 80 years to a heart attack. As bought the club in 1973, he had to pay $ 10 million. The Yankees are now about 1.6 billion dollars.
One of his Seinfeld performances in real:
Co-producer Larry David as Steinbrenner:
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Plus: Steinbrenner images in the archives of Sports Illustrated :
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