inning. popped up? 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 onto 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 now 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. joe, thanks for your time tonight. it s a pleasure, keith. i wish i could be talking to you under different circumstances. indeed. is there
thank you for coming in. thank you for having me. where does he fit in baseball? listening to all of the reports, this need to balance and put in this stuff is so hard to do and with steinbrenner nearly impossible. there s the generosity that you talked about, the intense loyalty, the delivery of the victories, which is what people want, and yet there is a sense that baseball s great lesson about loss was lost on him. and the idea that money could be thrown at you, you could fire people, treat people this way and on the other hand be so generous and kind and loyal to people. torre is an amazing example. yes. of somebody who rose above it, who came in. tom says in our film playing with house s money. he had been a loser most of his life as a player and manager too and he came into this place where the price was winning or you lost your head. and he kept his head and was able to somehow form this wonderful, maybe alliance and victory team despite george steinbrenner. when he
to. if we don t, then i ve got to come to the realization that maybe we misjudged some people. maybe there are some guys that aren t as good as we thought they were and definitely aren t as good as they thought they were. thus, the atmosphere of the 70s and 80s was almost warlike, and the manager in this famous in-game fight, billy martin, was hired and fired five times. by the third time it had already turned into a comedy act. i ll be handling all the trades. what do you mean? there will be no phone calls in the dugout. what do you mean? that s not right. i m handling the trades. that isn t the way we said it, george. i that s not the way it s going to be, george. damn right it is. if you don t like it, you re fired. you haven t hired me yet! and yet there was another george steinbrenner. he signed ex-met greats darryl strawberry and dwight gooden largely because he could thumb his nose at his cross-town rivals. but even when drugs interfered in their lives,
structure with all the big high priced free agents that you want but the essence of baseball has nothing to do with money but has to do with character, talent, teamwork, and cooperation. and i think a good deal of what george steinbrenner was about was the antithesis of those secret ingredients, the secret sauce that s very much a part of winning. i did a rough bit of research in i think 1998 when they made one of those trades for chuck knoblauch and i don t know exactly what the numbers were but i do look at the 20 trades made in the steinbrenner, the height of his folly, where they traded something like 200 wins by pitchers and 4,000 home runs and got ten wins and 25 home runs and, yet, as you say, the yankees success went from these crazy deals, the throw away future hall of famers for nothing and he did finally calm down and listen to people say, okay, work from within. how did he make that obviously he was coming back
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