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earn up to five hundred dollars at over three hundred retailers. many expected he would be george steinbrenner s briefest serving field manager. instead he lasted more than twice as long as anybody else. and the man who made steinbrenner s ascent a key part of his upcoming update of his baseball documentary, joe torre and ken burns on the death of the singular owner of the new york yankees, next on countdown.
fear and his children have even acknowledged how difficult it was. when you live that way where winning is everything and you win the world series and then the next moment is what have you done for me lately? what kind of life is that? where do you revel? talking to this red sox fan, you know, i turned to my wife after the victory in 2004 and said, i don t have to worry again. that didn t happen. but i had a nice period. for steinbrenner it was literally have to go and do it again. that s a football mentality. utterly american. maybe what he did is he brought a little bit, imported a little bit of football to this game that we love and transformed it in really important ways. he did understand something about free agency. he did understand what he could do with it. but in the end the nucleus of this successful yankee team are the home grown players. who michael got to develop in his absence which are the posadas and riveras and pettittes and of course the jeters. that is the interestin
and the man who may have represented better than any the dichotomies of the american character, generosity and greed, kindness and cruelty, the death of new york yankees owner george steinbrenner. my special guests, long-time yankees manager joe torre and baseball documentarian ken burns.
what you could not see during that was during the commercial in the moments before he received that last of his world series trophies, was george steinbrenner weeping on to my shoulder while he asked if my mom happened to be in the stands. george m. steinbrenner iii who had so much going on inside him that he might have been five or six different people crowded into one body died this morning at the age of 80 of a heart attack following a seven-year battle with a form of inconsistent dementia. the following is met with astonishment and respect. it is symbolic of his life that he died the morning of and thus completely overshadowed the baseball all-star game. i m honored to be joined on the phone by an old friend the man who won four world titles with george steinbrenner, manager joe torre of the los angeles dodgers. thanks for your time tonight. it s a pleasure, keith. i wish i could be talking to you under different circumstances. indeed. is there, in your assessment, any way to