Steinbrenner Large Print

Author:   Bill Madden
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
ISBN:  

9780061979569


Pages:   782
Publication Date:   01 June 2010
Format:   Paperback
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"No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. From the moment he bought the team in 1973 for $10 million, Steinbrenner's monomaniacal pursuit was to restore the most fabled franchise in baseball history to its former glory. Today the New York Yankees are worth more than $1 billion and are once again world champions. Award-winning sportswriter Bill Madden traces Steinbrenner from his early days in Cleveland through his years as a shipping magnate, a Nixon fund-raiser, and a champion horse breeder to the fateful moment when he bought the Yankees, even though his father disparaged George's desire to own a professional sports team as a ""hobby."" Over the next four decades, Steinbrenner's tumultuous reign included his epic battles with Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Dave Winfield, even beloved Yankee captain Derek Jeter. His ruthless and free-spending tactics made him a lightning rod for controversy but they also paid off: Steinbrenner's Yankees have won seven championships and remain the gold standard in all sports. In the last few years, with his health declining, the Boss ceded control of the team to his sons, but not before lording over the team's historic transition from the House That Ruth Built to the House That George Built. Throughout his three decades of covering the Yankees, Bill Madden has cultivated hundreds of sources at every level in the organization, from the many managers and front-office personnel Steinbrenner has fired to the bat boys who are ever present in the locker room. All of them have colorful stories about the man with whom they have enjoyed a love-hate relationship, but it is the Boss himself whose voice rises above the rest. And when Steinbrenner decided to give his final print interview, he spoke to Madden to set the record straight on his extraordinary life and career."

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Author:   Bill Madden
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Imprint:   HarperCollins
Edition:   Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9780061979569


ISBN 10:   0061979562
Pages:   782
Publication Date:   01 June 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Definitive, indispensible.... A vivid and entertaining portrait. --Sports Illustrated


Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography of 'The Boss.' --Kirkus Reviews


Definitive, indispensible.... A vivid and entertaining portrait. --Sports Illustrated Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography of 'The Boss.' --Kirkus Reviews Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography of The Boss. --Kirkus Reviews Definitive, indispensible.... A vivid and entertaining portrait. --Sports Illustrated


Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography of 'The Boss.' -- Kirkus Reviews Definitive, indispensible.... A vivid and entertaining portrait. -- Sports Illustrated


Definitive, indispensible.... A vivid and entertaining portrait. --Sports Illustrated Madden provides a definitive and captivating biography of 'The Boss.' --Kirkus Reviews


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Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News for more than forty years. In 2010, Madden was the recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's J. G. Taylor Spink Award. He has written several books about baseball, including the New York Times bestseller Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball.

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