" By the time of Jackson's election to the Hall of Fame, Steinbrenner had begun to say that letting him go was the biggest mistake he has made as Yankee owner.

Dan Topping, owner of the NFL's Brooklyn Tigers, wished to move his team from Ebbets Field to the much larger Yankee Stadium.

Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert was a personal friend, as well as the only owner Frazee could deal with after the Black Sox Scandal left the White Sox tarnished.

The first Sunday game to be played legally in New York, it was ended after the 12th inning, still scoreless, because Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert mistakenly believed the new law barred play after 6 PM.

Team owner Ted Collins, who managed singer Kate Smith, picked the name " Yanks " because he originally wanted to run a team that played at New York City's Yankee Stadium.

He feuded publicly with both Yankee owner George Steinbrenner and star outfielder Reggie Jackson.

Former United States President Richard Nixon and Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, along with many former New York Yankees greats attended Martin's funeral service.

Howser was one of the few Yankee managers who refused to let owner George Steinbrenner push him around.

The A's owner then ordered a white line to be painted on the field at the original " Pennant Porch " distance, and told the public address announcer to announce " That would have been a home run in Yankee Stadium " whenever a fly ball was hit past that line but short of the fence.

The decision was controversial as Berroa beat out both Baldelli and Matsui in the closest vote since 1980, prompting criticism from Yankee owner George Steinbrenner.

Yankee owner George Steinbrenner also labeled him as a " Warrior.

On April 14, 2011 Entergy, the owner of Vermont Yankee sued the state of Vermont to stay open despite the Senate's blocking vote.

During spring training 1947, Durocher became involved in an unseemly feud with the new Yankee owner, Larry MacPhail.

After Game 2, Joe Torre and his first base coach José Cardenal met with Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, furious at the team's performance in the World Series so far.

Yogi vowed not to visit Yankee Stadium and not to participate in any Yankee function as long as George Steinbrenner was still the owner of the Yankees.

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner issued a statement following his death: " Bobby Murcer was a born Yankee, a great guy, very well-liked and a true friend of mine.

The Majors also won the Intercounty title in 1956 with former New York Yankee / Pittsburgh Pirate outfielder Frank Colman as the owner of the team.

He was released from jail on a work-release program when Yankee owner George Steinbrenner offered him a job in minor-league player development for the team.

Steve is then brought down to the field in a helicopter-an idea that is actually Al's, but which Yankee owner, George Steinbrenner ( playing himself ) takes credit for himself.

While Steinbrenner's commanding style has led some to think the new owner influenced his retirement, he told Bill Madden of the New York Daily News it was the constant booing of Yankee fans that pushed him.

When one of the soldiers is prevented, by his commanding officer, from taking a gilded sword that once belonged to Scarlett's long-dead father-in-law and intended for her little boy Wade Hamilton ( the officer is himself a veteran of the same campaigns as the sword's former owner ), the thwarted Yankee soldier expresses his indignation by secretly setting a wing of the house on fire as the Yankees are leaving.

Lidle was the third Yankee to die in a plane crash in which the player was the owner.

George said, `` First thing I do when I get to Vicksburg again, is get me a Yankee '' --

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

It came after the umpire allegedly told Hank that he was ready to call the game due to darkness, because the ump — former Yankee pitching star of the 1920s Murderers Row team, George Pipgras, supposedly said " Sorry Hank, but I'm gonna have to call the game.

* The New York Yankees face the Arizona Diamondbacks in game 3 of a drama-filled 2001 World Series, with President George W. Bush throwing the ceremonial first pitch for a strike at Yankee Stadium.

* November 5 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter and entertainer ( Yankee Doodle Dandy ) ( b. 1878 )

Although many observers from the 1880s onward predicted that Yankee politicians would be no match for new generations of ethnic politicians, the presence of Yankees at the top tier of modern American politics was typified by Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, and by Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean ( as well, to some observers, by 2004 Democratic presidential nominee Senator John Forbes Kerry, descendant through his mother, of the Scottish Forbes family, which emigrated to Massachusetts the 1750s ).

In 1981, the last year of his Yankee contract, Jackson endured several difficulties from George Steinbrenner.

Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as " The Man Who Owns Broadway ".

James Cagney as George M. Cohan performing " The Yankee Doodle Boy " from Little Johnny Jones

In 1917, in response to news from the front lines, Congressional appropriations attempted to back the plans of General George O. Squier, the Army's chief signal officer, to " put the Yankee punch into the war by building an army in the air ".

The Byrne Sieberlings ( 1920-30's ) sponsored by the J. P. Byrne Tire Company featured some of Central New York's greatest semi-pro ball players: George & Oscar Dear, Tommy Allen, Andy Burns, Henry " Dutch " Dotterer Sr, Don Miller ( 1927 NY Yankee ), Vic Hanson ( SU All-American ,) " Gotch " Carr, Louis " Doc " Morgan.

Kovic was born on July 4, 1946, and his book's ironic title echoed a famous line from George M. Cohan's patriotic 1904 song, " The Yankee Doodle Boy " ( also known as " Yankee Doodle Dandy ").

George was described as, " a little Yankee from New York with a long, white beard.

George M. Cohan from the musical The Yankee Prince

As a result, the blackface " Sambo " character came to supplant the " tall-tale-telling Yankee " and " frontiersman " character-types in popularity, and white actors such as Charles Mathews, George Washington Dixon, and Edwin Forrest began to build reputations as blackface performers.

Hoard was defeated in an intense campaign by Democrat George Wilbur Peck, the Yankee mayor of Milwaukee.

During the 1983 season, Martin was involved in one of the most controversial regular season games, known as the Pine Tar Incident, where umpires nullified a game-winning home run by Yankee nemesis, Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, when Martin protested that there was too much pine tar on his bat.

* Colonel George A. Custer, a frustrated Yankee cavalryman, serves on the Great Plains and helps put down the Mormon rebellion in Utah.

" Regardless, as Munson was beloved by his teammates, Martin, Steinbrenner and Yankee fans, the relationships between them and Jackson became very strained.

The at-bat began with Yankee fans, angry at Steinbrenner for letting Jackson get away, starting the " Reg-GIE!

Home games are played at George M. Steinbrenner Field, a miniature replica of Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.

" During the 1999 season, Steinbrenner declared a Yogi Berra Day to honor him, to the thrill of Yankee fans everywhere.

He worked for George Steinbrenner for one season, in, and was the Bombers ' manager during their final game in 1973 at the " original " Yankee Stadium prior to its closure for two years for renovation.

But he did not have a good rookie season, and some observers ( notably ESPN ) commented that Yankee owner George Steinbrenner had orchestrated the call-up, hoping to create a phenom along the lines of the crosstown Mets ' 1984 rookie sensation Dwight Gooden.