Highlights
George Steinbrenner has been the principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball team since 1973. The Boss is best known for his enthusiastic, sometimes abrasive proclamations and his feuds with Billy Martin and Yogi Berra. His sons, Hank Steinbrenner and Hal Steinbrenner, are also prominent ownership figures with the Yankees.
George Steinbrenner has been the principal owner of the New York Yankees baseball team since 1973. The Boss is best known for his enthusiastic, sometimes abrasive proclamations and his feuds with Billy Martin and Yogi Berra. His sons, Hank Steinbrenner and Hal Steinbrenner, are also prominent ownership figures with the Yankees.
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Surprise Find: A 139-Year-Old Baseball Card
McClatchy NewspapersBernice Gallego sat down one day this summer, as she does pretty much every day, and began listing items on eBay. She dug into a box and pulled out a baseball card. She stopped for a moment and admired the picture. "Red Stocking B.B. Club of Cincinnati,"...Tags: Auction Service, eBay Inc., Foods and Beverages, Tourism and Leisure, Casino and Gambling
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MLB Network shows early potential
Tribune staff reporterThe MLB Network made its much-hyped debut Jan. 1, shortly after most Chicago sports fans were watching a hockey game at a baseball park. How big is this? In one of the promos for the network, which can be seen in 50 million homes, Commissioner Bud...Tags: Yogi Berra, All Stars, Philadelphia Phillies, ESPN, Ken Burns
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George Steinbrenner recalls Murcer in Sporting News
WatchdogHank Steinbrenner has been a Sporting News columnist for several months, but now his father has joined the family side business, contributing an article in the current edition that has a section recalling sports figures who died in 2008. Click......Tags: Hank Steinbrenner, Bobby Murcer, Mickey Mantle
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Sports consultant calls Yanks 'not-for-profit business'
WatchdogMarc Ganis, a quotable consultant who has been a regular in sports business columns such as mine for many years, made a brief appearance in my Wednesday newspaper article in the wake of the Teixeira signing. Full disclosure: He has......Tags: Contracts, Florida Marlins, New York Mets, Major League Baseball, Baseball
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WATCHDOG: BLOG BITES THE BEST OF NEIL BEST
neil.best@newsday.comJerry Manuel: Still WatchDog's Media Person of Year Not included in my Sports Media Year in Review below is my New York Sports Media Person of the Year. That's because I awarded it three months ago to Jerry Manuel. But it's instructive to recall whom...Tags: Laveranues Coles, Buzz Bissinger, National Hockey League, Florida Marlins, ESPN
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Yankees treat themselves to another big present
wallace.matthews@newsday.comSometimes it seems as if the Yankees inhabit some alternate reality, a bizarro universe in which the AL East race is not a competition among ballclubs but among bankbooks, one in which the recession doesn't exist, unemployment has been eradicated and...Tags: Alex Rodriguez, All Stars, Florida Marlins, Major League Baseball, Derek Jeter
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Teixeira finally gets wish
kat.obrien@newsday.comThe expectation with any Scott Boras client is that he will get top dollar. Mark Teixeira, an astute student of the economics of baseball, got that with an eight-year, $180-million contract from the Yankees yesterday. But Teixeira also got something else...Tags: Diseases, Major League Baseball, Mark Teixeira, Cancer, Baltimore Orioles
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Notable pardons
james.bernstein@newsday.comSome presidents, like Gerald R. Ford, are remembered almost entirely for the pardons they granted. Others, like Bill Clinton, saw their reputations shattered by their pardons. And others, like Andrew Johnson, are recalled for the generosity of theirs....Tags: Punishment, Richard Nixon, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Central Intelligence Agency, Civil Unrest
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White House backs pardon, reversal of LI realty scammer
It was written by AMON and BERNSTEIN.The White House yesterday defended its actions in the case of Isaac Robert Toussie, the Brooklyn developer convicted of a large-scale Suffolk real estate scam, who received a pardon from President George W. Bush on Tuesday, only to have Bush reverse the...Tags: Punishment, Richard Nixon, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, George Bush, Major League Baseball
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Yankees welcome Sabathia, Burnett to pinstripes
kat.obrien@newsday.comThe Yankees' plan to shore up their pitching and stop being so reliant on their offense came to fruition yesterday as they ushered CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett into pinstripes. Sabathia and Burnett were all smiles as they put on their uniforms. So was...Tags: Contracts, Jeff Weaver, All Stars, Chien-Ming Wang, Joe Torre
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Rating Brian Cashman's pitcher acquisitions
Ken Davidoff ranks the starting pitching acquisitions made by the Yankees from 1998-2008. Not all of the calls were Brian Cashman's (BC); George Steinbrenner (GS) pushed for some of the moves. Four stars (****) MIKE MUSSINA. One of the best big-money,...Tags: Jeff Weaver, Joe Torre, Brian Cashman, C.C. Sabathia, Major League Baseball
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Yankee-hating surely back in style
ken.davidoff@newsday.comYankees president Randy Levine, on live television yesterday from the old Yankee Stadium, announced, "Today, we reaffirm the Steinbrenners' commitment to Yankees' fans." For the rest of the world, of course, it meant just the opposite: Time to hate the...Tags: Johan Santana, Brian Cashman, A.J. Burnett, C.C. Sabathia, Boston Red Sox
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