Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} George The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire by Peter Golenbock George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire by Peter Golenbock. Baseball (4-Jul-1930 — 13-Jul-2010) SUBJECT OF BOOKS. Maury Allen . All Roads Lead to October: Boss Steinbrenner's 25-Year Reign Over the Yankees . Macmillan. 2001 . 336pp. Jim Caple . The Devil Wears Pinstripes: George Steinbrenner, the Satans of Swat, and the Curse of A-Rod . Penguin. 2005 . 224pp. Frank Coffey; Peter Golenbock . The Wit and Wisdom of George Steinbrenner . New American Library. 1993 . 210pp. Peter Golenbock . George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire . John Wiley & Sons. 2009 . 384pp. Phil Pepe . The Ballad of Billy and George: The Tempestuous Baseball Marriage of Billy Martin and George Steinbrenner . Lyons Press. 2008 . 224pp. AUTHORITIES. Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual. All the president's Yankees: How Trump's long affair with the team foreshadowed his presidency. President Donald Trump stood next to Mariano Rivera, the former relief pitcher and Hall of Famer, before they walked side- by-side in a packed East Room of the White House with Metallica's "Enter Sandman" blaring overhead. On one side, the greatest closer in baseball history. On the other, the self-proclaimed titan of deal-closing. It was mid-September, and Trump was about to present Rivera with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It would mark the culmination of a decadeslong relationship between the president and the Yankees organization — one that has involved some of Trump's most important relationships and exposed him to leadership tactics he deploys to this day. "The Sandman," Trump said of Rivera as the Metallica hit played, just like it did when Rivera would enter games. "My wife asked me, 'Why 'The Sandman?' Just tell me.' Our first lady. I said, 'Because he put the batter to sleep, right?' 'The Sandman.' A lot of people don’t know that, but the Yankee fans know that. We've watched it for a long time." A Yankees fan for years, Trump would know. But his relationship with the team far predates Rivera's on-field heroics and led to his decades-old relationship with George Steinbrenner, the Yankees owner known colloquially as "The Boss" and a man Trump said was his best friend. Steinbrenner died in 2010. "He and George were very good friends," Randy Levine, who was president of the Yankees for two decades and who late last year found himself under consideration to be the Trump's chief of staff, told NBC News. Download the NBC News app for breaking news and politics. Levine noted that Steinbrenner would often invite Trump to watch games with him in the owner's suite. "He sat at a big round table and others would join him," Levine said. "The president would sit there with George. Other people, such as Yogi would often join them," he said, referring to another Yankees Hall of Famer, Yogi Berra. "George always used to say we had a great record when Donald was at the table with him," Levine said. "And because George was superstitious, especially during the playoffs, he would always call Donald to make sure he was there. George believed he was good luck." Perhaps no contemporary displayed a leadership style as similar to Trump's as Steinbrenner, who first popularized the phrase "you're fired," one Trump would make a hallmark in his decade on "The Apprentice." Famously difficult to work with — particularly early in his tenure as Yankees owner — Steinbrenner would hire and fire top employees seemingly on a whim. He waged battles with his staff and his players in public. He was the model for chaos agent as CEO. Steinbrenner cycled through managers at a pace never seen before. Trump, who is also known for both privately and publicly berating his employees, is running an administration with a record-level turnover rate. Steinbrenner won, though there were many bumps along the way. In his nearly nearly four decades running the Yankees, the team captured seven titles. As Levine said, Trump and Steinbrenner "were very different in ways, but very similar, very out front" and "very strong." Others had a slightly different take. "They were the same person when they were born," Peter Golenbock, author of "George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire," a critical 2010 Steinbrenner biography, told NBC News. "They were narcissistic and that's the thing that really ties the two of them together is their narcissism, and it's an extreme narcissism in both of their cases." Both Trump and Steinbrenner got their start in their family's business, and both sought to move out from under the shadows of their fathers. As they became close in the 1980s, the two men ran in a circle that included businessmen like limousine executive Bill Fugazy and Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca. The combative attorney Roy Cohn counseled them both. "And I think he learned from those guys," Levine said of Trump. Like Trump, Steinbrenner, who was suspended multiple times from overseeing the Yankees, had a nose for controversy. The first suspension came in the mid 1970s when he was convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to President Richard Nixon, something for which Steinbrenner would receive a presidential pardon for years later. The second came in the early 1990s after the Yankees owner paid to dig up dirt on his star player Dave Winfield. "I mean it's amazing how Steinbrenner showed all those same characteristics that Trump does, that he was one of these people who didn't take advice from anybody," Golenbock said. "He was the smartest guy in the room. He knew better than any general manager. He knew better than any manager. He knew better than anybody." "You talk about somebody who loved the notion of 'you're fired,' which is what Trump was known for," Golenbock said. "Ten years of that TV show where he relished in firing people. Well, Steinbrenner was exactly the same way." And the similarities between the Winfield episode and Trump's efforts at digging up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden in Ukraine⁠ — now the subject of Democrats' impeachment inquiry⁠ — were not lost on Golenbock. "The parallels are just uncanny," he said. Marty Appel, a former Yankees public relations executive and author of several books on the team, acknowledged "similarities in their bombastic approach," but told NBC News the comparisons should end there. Steinbrenner, Appel said, "could be a difficult boss, he could be pretty hardheaded on things sometimes, but at the end he was a decent person who was right as a businessman." "I think really, he just took from Steinbrenner the capital B in 'The Boss,'" Appel added of Trump. "You're the boss, do whatever you want. He's gone beyond the realm of what's appropriate." The president has seamlessly transitioned from his Yankees days to the White House. Even before, as a candidate, Trump touted the endorsements of prominent former players. At a Florida rally days before the 2016 election, Trump had former Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon deliver an introductory speech. Months earlier, he shouted out another former Yankees outfielder, Paul O'Neill, during a press conference at a primary victory party in Florida. "I love you," Trump said after asking O'Neill for his support. In the years that followed, Rivera — who now serves as a co-chair of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition — and Damon have become recurring guests on "Fox and Friends," one of the president's favorite TV programs. "I think the president’s a Yankee fan," Levine said. "Rumor is he started out as a Mets fan, but he got converted because of his relationship with 'The Boss.' Genuinely, I think he loves sports. I don’t think politics enters into it when it comes to sports." In the years preceding his presidential run, Trump was routinely spotted at sitting alongside contemporaries like former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly and ex- Mayor , now Trump's attorney. Famous Yankees like , and Hideki Matsui bought apartments in Trump buildings. When Rodriguez and Jeter sold those apartments, Trump was quick to attribute poor play or injury to their decision to sell. In that vein, the future president held little back in offering his unvarnished thoughts on the team through his Twitter account. "The Yankees are sure lucky George Steinbrenner is not around," Trump wrote in 2013. "A lot of people would be losing their jobs." Giuliani's son, Andrew, a White House official, offered NBC News his assessment of what ties the president and the Yankees together. "American icons and winners," he said. There's little doubt Trump sees it the same way. If he could own any major sports team — something he sought in his pre-presidential life — the answer was simple. "I would really always say the Yankees," he said in 2015. The senior Giuliani, who has for the past year and a half served as the president's personal attorney, said he and Trump frequently discuss the team, adding that Trump "was just about at every Yankee game that I was at when I was the mayor." Asked if Trump would join him behind home plate at Yankee Stadium, where Giuliani is often spotted watching the team, he said, "I think he would love it." George. For 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees. He played fast and loose with the rules, and twice could have gone to jail. He was banned from baseball for life-but was allowed back in the game. Yet George Steinbrenner also built the New York Yankees from a mediocre team into the greatest sports franchise in America. The Yankees won ten pennants and six World Series during his tenure. Now acclaimed sportswriter and New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock tells the fascinating story of "The Boss," from his Midwestern childhood through his decades-long ownership of the Yankees-the longest in the team's history. Draws on more than a hundred interviews with those who have known George Steinbrenner throughout his life to tell the complete story of "The Boss" and his long tenure as owner of the New York Yankees Gets inside Steinbrenner's countless manager hirings and firings, from Billy Martin to ; the legendary feuds and hard feelings involving famous figures such as Yogi Berra and Dave Winfield; and the ever-spiraling players' salaries Covers the astute business deals that transformed the Yankees from a $10 million franchise into a powerhouse worth over $1 billion today Written by Peter Golenbock, one of the nation's best-known sports authors and the author of five New York Times bestsellers, including Number 1 with Billy Martin and The Bronx Zoo with Sparky Lyle. Packed with drama, insight, and fascinating front-office details, George is essential reading for baseball fans and anyone who loves a terrific story well told. Peter Golenbock is one of the nation's best-known sports authors. He has written some of sports' most important books, including five New York Times bestsellers: The Bronx Zoo with Sparky Lyle, Number 1 with Billy Martin, Balls with Graig Nettles, Idiot with Johnny Damon, and Personal Fouls. He is also the author of the bestselling book on NASCAR, American Zoom, and he has written books about the Mets, and most recently 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel. His collaboration with Tony Curtis, American Prince, reached number seven on the New York Times bestseller list. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. GEORGE. That George Steinbrenner has a legendary temper is, well, legendary. He has fired more employees than Donald Trump has apprentices. His feuds are epic. His jealous rage has cost him championships, his finest players and suspensions from baseball. So Peter Golenbock, author of the “The Bronx Zoo” and other books with Billy Martin and Sparky Lyle, isn’t really breaking any news telling us about Steinbrenner’s anger in this new biography. But it’s the depth of that anger that may surprise, and amuse, Yankees fans. With no rhyme or reason — and with even the most trivial provocation — the king’s madness would erupt. Steinbrenner’s real-life behavior is far more over the top than any pop culture spoof, including the “Seinfeld” sitcom’s send-up. Take, for instance, spring 1996, when the Yankees owner saw two local community college teams playing on the wrong field at his club’s spring training complex in Tampa. An infuriated Steinbrenner demands that a Yankees executive tell the teams to switch fields, even though the game was already in the fourth inning. When his underling refuses, Steinbrenner went over to a college pitcher himself and barks, “Hey, get the f – – – off my pitcher’s mound.” After the two teams’ coaches explained that the groundskeepers had instructed them to play at that field because another was being seeded, Steinbrenner fired the groundskeeper. Where did George develop his love for firing? Golenbock notes that Steinbrenner’s own overbearing father, a wealthy businessman whom George’s schoolmates feared, once fired his son from the family’s Ohio company, American Ship Building. Steinbrenner did him one better, firing his own sons and hiring and firing sparkplug skipper Billy Martin five times. But there have been many more, like the Yankees secretary who forgot to bring him a tuna sandwich for lunch. Petty jealousy, pride and stubbornness seem to motivate most of these whimsies — as his current Yankees executives can testify. During a lunch at the 21 club, Steinbrenner got angry with Lonn Trost, the team’s chief operating officer, Yankees’ president Randy Levine and his public relations head Howard Rubenstein about the specifics of a sweetheart stadium deal the Yankees were to sign with the city. The argument occurred two hours before a ceremonial handshake with Mayor Rudy Giuliani. When the three explained it was too late to adjust the deal, Steinbrenner fired all three guys at the table. Like many of the employees, they were rehired. During the 1996 season, Yankee manager Joe Torre told the media that he understood why construction on the Major Deegan Expressway might keep fans from coming to the ballpark. A steamed Steinbrenner responded by ordering two of his highest-paid executives to drive around city roads for two hours, timing how long it took to get to the stadium from each borough. Even the most-talented player’s fate hinged on Steinbrenner’s temperament and attention span. During the 1988 season, slugger Dave Winfield was on the outs with the owner, and then-General Manager Lou Piniella was instructed to trade him. But as Piniella was meeting with Houston’s general manager, Steinbrenner barged in and grabbed his GM. Instead of talking about Winfield, Steinbrenner marched Piniella outside to grouse about fans receiving complimentary tickets. “There’s too many people getting free passes,” Steinbrenner told Piniella as they crouched behind a bush. “I’m going to put a stop to it. Now, I want you to stay here and watch all the people who come through this gate. Count them and see who they are.” The new task took precedence, and talk of trading Winfield never resurfaced. As Yankees fans know, though, there is more to Steinbrenner than petty tyranny. His insurmountable energy and intelligence are what led to his business success, including the transformation of the Yank from a $10 million team into a $1 billion franchise. Golenbock warmly details Steinbrenner’s mentoring underprivileged athletes and sizeable philanthropy, and the incredible run when the Yankees team won four World Series under skipper Joe Torre starting in 1996. Of course, the team’s postseason resurgence came after an 18-year championship drought, which many blame on Steinbrenner’s meddling. And Golenbock argues that the seeds of those championship teams were sown during the owner’s two-year suspension from baseball that ended in 1993. Freedom from King George’s rule allowed General Manager Gene Michael to draft and groom prospects like Derek Jeter and acquire solid veterans like Paul O’Neill and Wade Boggs. In typical fashion, when Steinbrenner returned, he scolded Michael for the state of the team. “This team is messed up,” he said. “The players are messed up, everything is messed up. This was in good shape when I left.” Michael cheekily replied, “That’s why we had first pick in the draft in 1991.” New Bio on George Steinbrenner Portrays the Real Boss. The complete bio of George Steinbrenner Hits Bookstores In Time For Tomorrow's Opening of the New Yankee Stadium. Hoboken, NJ (PRWEB) April 15, 2009. GEORGE: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire, is a complete biography of former New York Yankees principal owner George M. Steinbrenner that was 25 years in the making. In GEORGE, Peter Golenbock portrays the George Steinbrenner most people know - the blustery Yankees owner who berated his players, tortured his managers and employees, but also won ten pennants and six World Series, and made his team into the most revered and reviled franchise in all of sports. Golenbock also sheds light on the George Steinbrenner most fans don't know. He spotlights his childhood and his critical relationship with his domineering but protective father, his education at Culver Military Academy and Williams College and the lessons he learned there. Then come his years during the Korean War at a cushy military post near home; his early years in Cleveland and his controversial first ownership of a sports team, The Cleveland Pipers, offering insight into how he would operate as the owner of the Yankees and how his chicanery prevented him from buying his first love, the Cleveland Indians. GEORGE takes an in-depth look at the life of this notorious, complicated man who played fast and loose with the rules, managing to take the New York Yankees from mediocrity to world champions just four years after he bought the team. For thirty-four years George Steinbrenner commanded headlines in the national press. How he did it is an amazing tale of money and power. Twice he could have gone to jail. Today the Yankees, which Steinbrenner bought in 1973 for $10 million, are worth $1.2 billion. GEORGE: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire (Wiley; April 20, 2009; $26.95; Cloth; ISBN: 978-0-470-39219-5) by best- selling author Peter Golenbock is based on twenty five years of extensive interviews with those who have known Steinbrenner throughout his life. GEORGE relates how Steinbrenner bought the Yankees and his first suspension from baseball for two years for his illegal contributions to Richard Nixon's re-election fund. Golenbock also details Steinbrenner's famous volatile relationships with players and managers, especially with Billy Martin and Dave Winfield (his feuding with Winfield led to a second suspension from , this one for life after the Howie Spira debacle, but later rescinded). Golenbock also chronicles the Yankees' glory years beginning in the latter part of the 1990s, four championships in six years, the creation of the YES television network, the eventual firing of Joe Torre, and the crown jewel - the building of the new Yankee Stadium. GEORGE is not just a must-read for Yankee fans, and baseball fans everywhere. It's an incredible look at a larger-than-life figure who is as misunderstood as he is respected. About the Author: Six-time bestselling author Peter Golenbock is one of the nation's best known sports authors and has written some of sports' most important books, including New York Times bestsellers: The Bronx Zoo with Sparky Lyle, Number 1 with Billy Martin, Balls with Craig Nettles and Personal Fouls. He is also the author of the best-selling book on NASCAR, American Zoom. He has also written books about the Mets and Johnny Damon, and most recently 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel. He lives in Florida.