{"id":2499,"date":"2010-07-15T03:09:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/07\/steinbrenner-gone-steinbrenner-gone\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T03:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T10:13:32","slug":"steinbrenner-gone-steinbrenner-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/15\/steinbrenner-gone-steinbrenner-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"“He was an outsider from Cleveland.” Steinbrenner Gone."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Steinbrenner Remembered as Despot and Hero<\/nyt_headline><\/h1>\n

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David Goldman for The New York Times<\/p>\n

By\u00a0JAMES BARRON<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ALAN FEUER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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He was an outsider from Cleveland\u00a0who became one of those unforgettable New York characters: deep-pocketed and domineering, a victory-at-all-costs cutthroat, not shy about twisting arms \u2014 or the law. But he delivered: 11 American League pennants, 7 World Series championships. And as the years passed, it turned out that he even had something of a soft side, difficult as it was to see or believe.<\/p>\n

And so, when\u00a0George Steinbrenner<\/a>\u00a0died on Tuesday at age 80<\/a>, he got a typical New York send-off: good riddance and God bless, accompanied by applause and anger.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge and I had our differences, but who didn\u2019t?\u201d said\u00a0Yogi Berra<\/a>, the Hall of Fame\u00a0Yankees<\/a>\u00a0catcher whom Mr. Steinbrenner fired as the team\u2019s manager 16 games into the 1985 season \u2014 and who refused to return to\u00a0Yankee Stadium<\/a>\u00a0until Mr. Steinbrenner apologized, which he finally did, 14 years later.<\/p>\n

But that was not all Mr. Berra had to say on Tuesday: \u201cHe built the Yankees into champions, and that\u2019s something nobody can ever deny.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times Steinbrenner Remembered as Despot and Hero David Goldman for The New York Times By\u00a0JAMES BARRON\u00a0and\u00a0ALAN FEUER He was an outsider from Cleveland\u00a0who became one of those unforgettable New York characters: deep-pocketed and domineering, a victory-at-all-costs cutthroat, not shy about twisting arms \u2014 or the law. But he delivered: 11 American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}