George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire by Peter Golenbock PDF

For 34 years, he berated his gamers and tormented Yankees managers and staff. He performed quick and unfastened with the principles, and two times can have long gone to detention center. He was once banned from baseball for life—but was once allowed again within the online game. but George Steinbrenner additionally equipped the hot York Yankees from a mediocre crew into the best activities franchise in the USA. The Yankees received ten pennants and 6 global sequence in the course of his tenure. Now acclaimed sportswriter and New York Times bestselling writer Peter Golenbock tells the interesting tale of "The Boss," from his Midwestern formative years via his decades-long possession of the Yankees–the longest within the team's history.

• Draws on greater than 100 interviews with those that have identified George Steinbrenner all through his existence to inform the full tale of "The Boss" and his lengthy tenure as proprietor of the recent York Yankees
• Gets inside of Steinbrenner’s numerous supervisor hirings and firings, from Billy Martin to Joe Torre; the mythical feuds and tough emotions concerning well-known figures corresponding to Yogi Berra and Dave Winfield; and the ever-spiraling avid gamers' salaries
• Covers the astute enterprise offers that remodeled the Yankees from a $10 million franchise right into a powerhouse worthy over $1 billion today
• Written by way of Peter Golenbock, one of many nation's best-known activities authors and the writer of 5 New York Times bestsellers, together with Number 1 with Billy Martin and The Bronx Zoo with Sparky Lyle

Packed with drama, perception, and interesting front-office information, George is key studying for baseball fanatics and a person who loves a very good tale good told.