George Steinbrenner

Celebrated baseball writer Peter Golenbock, author of Dynasty: The New York Yankees 1949-64, has signed a contract with John Wiley & Sons to write a biography of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, it was announced today. The book will be called The Boss, and it is scheduled for publication in spring 2009.  read more »

In an offseason so far dominated by high-profile departures, the Yankees finally got to announce an addition to the 2008 squad, introducing Joe Girardi as Joe Torre’s successor to manage New York.

We know that Girardi accepted to a three-year, $7.5 million deal. But precisely what else he agreed to still remains unclear.  read more »

The Joe Torre era in New York is over. It was “time for the New York Yankees to move forward,” team President Randy Levine explained.  read more »

The New York Post is reporting this morning that George Steinbrenner's sons have taken over daily operations at the New York Yankees ball club.

The New York Post said the details about the control of the franchise will be ironed out at top-level meetings the Yankees are holding this week in Tampa. According to The Associated Press manager Joe Torre's status for next season will be decided during discussions starting on Tuesday morning.

"George has taken on a role like the chairman of a major corporation," team president Randy Levine told the paper.  read more »

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Ultimately, any of these choices represents a downgrade from Joe Torre.  read more »

On Aug. 5, the New York Post editorial page opined about George Steinbrenner’s contributions to the city these past three decades, a response to increasing questions raised during the week about the Yankees boss’ health.  read more »

Good Jobs New York, a watchdog organization, still thinks that the new Yankee Stadium is a bad idea. When the City Council approved the idea in April 2006, Good Jobs did not think it would pay for itself. Now, after additional city commitments, rising infrastructure costs and revised estimates by the Independent Budget Office, the group issued a new report today showing that taxpayers’ costs for the project had risen by another $217.4 million.

According to the nonprofit’s tally, costs to the city, state, M.T.A. and federal government for the project total $663.5 million—including the cost of constructing new parks to replace the parkland where the new stadium is being erected. That is more than twice the $315.7 million in benefits that Good Jobs calculates.

“Our numbers solidify that taxpayers were misled when they said it was a privately financed project,” said Bettina Damiani, project director for Good Jobs. “New Yorkers are paying for this by having our parks taken away and our tax dollars spent.”

Seth Pinsky, executive vice president of the city's Economic Development Corporation, disputed the report’s estimate, saying that the city calculated that the stadium, and new parking garages, would result in a net gain for the budget of $76 million. He said that the Good Jobs study also failed to consider the indirect impacts, such as the positive press the new ball park would generate nationally when it opened.

“This stadium project is among the most expensive stadiums in the country,” Mr. Pinsky said in an e-mail. “It’s not an easy lift even for a wealthy team like the New York Yankees.”  read more »

In an investigative profile in The Village Voice, Tom Robbins delves into Stanley Schlein's record, not as lawyer to George Steinbrenner, nor as counsel to the Bronx Democratic Party-which he both, fortunately for the new Yankee stadium, serves as. But rather as court-appointed guardian for the incapacitated.

The message: Don't live in the Bronx if you value your money.

-Matthew Schuerman

In an investigative profile in The Village Voice, Tom Robbins delves into Stanley Schlein's record, not as lawyer to George Steinbrenner, nor as counsel to the Bronx Democratic Party--which he both, fortunately for the new Yankee stadium, serves as. But rather as court-appointed guardian for the incapacitated.

The message: Don't live in the Bronx if you value your money.

-Matthew Schuerman

Back in the late 1980’s, developers of controversial projects were so desperate to get into the go  read more »

Back in the late 1980’s, developers of controversial projects were so desperate to get into th  read more »

As Matthew Schuerman noted earlier, the Yankee stadium plan easily passed the City Council subcommittee (3-0) and committee (22-1) this morning.

But the meeting was not without its moments, and tensions, as a crowd of partisans for and against the stadium packed the small chamber. The opposition held up green and orange signs and passed out fake dollar bills with Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo's face on them. ("How much was the "deal" with the Yankees to hand over our public parks?" they said.) The construction workers who support the deal but couldn't find seats in the small chamber spilled out into the adjacent one. There, speakers piped in the meeting and their muted cheers could be heard with each yes vote.

The morning's lone nay vote came from Charles Barron, who argued that the Metro North station used to sweeten the deal is just for white fans who "want a straight path to Yankee stadium and out." He then accused the Yanks, and especially George Steinbrenner, of being a bad corporate partner to the community for the last 83 years.

Staten Island's Jimmy Oddo pointed out that the "robust" Mr. Steinbrenner was not quite that old, and added "I wouldn't want to throw down with him."

Barron and Oddo got laughs, Arroyo only heard heckles. After saying that she resented how her integrity had been "called into question," the Bronx councilwoman said that she intended to stick around "past 09 - and I also intend to hold the Yankees accountable."

That caused snickering in the crowd.

"The Yankees are not the only ones who can swing bats," she said.

--Jason Horowitz

As of this writing, it is unclear whether New York’s baseball community will enjoy a meaningful au  read more »

As of this writing, it is unclear whether New York’s baseball community will enjoy a meaningfu  read more »

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Having been outvoxed by the populi not once but twice in the last few years, City Council Speaker Pe  read more »

Two days after a 500-pound beam dropped out of the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, the Mets' co-owner  read more »

I come to praise the Bronx, but first I want to bury the Yankees. God, I'm so glad they lost.  read more »