Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball - Bill Madden

No owner has changed the landscape of sports more than New York Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner. Award-winning sportswriter Madden traces Steinbrenner from his early days in Cleveland through his years as a shipping magnate, a Nixon fund-raiser, and a champion horse breeder to the fateful moment when he bought the Yankees--and onward through the next four decades. If you love the New York Yankees, arguably the most storied franchise in all of sports--or even if you're just a fan of baseball history, or big business bios--this biography of the larger-than-life team owner for the past four decades is a must for your bookshelf. For more than 30 years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News , and he brings all his insights and inside connections to Steinbrenner : the definitive biography of one of New York's most intriguing and long-standing sports figures, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.