Hank Steinbrenner, the Yankees Owner Who Kept a Guitar in His Office
After George Steinbrenner’s older son died on Tuesday, people in baseball remembered him as a free-spirited character who once stepped aside from the Yankees to run the family’s horse farm.
In his 37 imperious years as the Yankees’ principal owner, George Steinbrenner regularly held meetings with the team’s brain trust at Malio’s, a steakhouse in Tampa, Fla., where Steinbrenner had a home and eventually set up the club’s spring-training site. Team executives and scouts — as well as Steinbrenner’s sons, Hank and Hal — would scrutinize the roster, player by player, point by point. The gatherings were long. They were sometimes contentious.more...

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