George Steinbrenner, Iconic Yankees Owner, Dead At 80

Polarizing figure owned the team for nearly four decades and changed the business of baseball. George Steinbrenner in 1973 Photo: Olen Collection/Diamond Images/Getty Images George Steinbrenner, the mercurial, oft-quotable, win-at-all-costs, take-no-prisoners, make-no-friends owner of the New York Yankees, died on Tuesday (July 13), after suffering a massive heart attack. He was 80. "It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing," his ...

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