The same year, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was reinstated from a lifelong suspension that was instituted by Selig's predecessor Fay Vincent.

After the victory Boston's owner sold its star pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees to help funding of a Broadway play, and thus starting a tale of futility which would last 86 years, known as Curse of the Bambino.

* 1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee.

In late April, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees owner Dan Topping agreed to swap the players, but a day later canceled the deal when Yawkey requested that Yogi Berra come with DiMaggio.

* Boies represented New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a suit against Major League Baseball.

This exacerbated Giants owner Charles Stoneham's resentment of the Yankees and precipitated his insistence that the Yankees find another place to play their home games.

In 1947, Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees GM Larry MacPhail verbally agreed to trade DiMaggio for Ted Williams, but MacPhail refused to include Yogi Berra .< ref >

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner issued a press release claiming that manager Lou Piniella wanted to trade Henderson for " jaking it " ( playing lackadaisically ).

One of the team's limited partners was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who lived in Tampa during the year.

In, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner made headlines by signing Winfield to a 10-year, $ 23 million ($ today ) contract, making him the game's highest-paid player.

He was the first San Diego Padre player inducted into Cooperstown — a move that reportedly irked Yankees ' owner George Steinbrenner.

Under owner George Steinbrenner, the New York Yankees baseball team had a strict dress code that prohibited long hair and facial hair below the lip ; the regulation was continued under Hank and Hal Steinbrenner when control of the Yankees was transferred to them after the season.

The above only includes the trades Frazee made to the Yankees from 1918 to 1923, when he was owner of the Red Sox.

Showalter and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner did not agree to a contract extension, so Colangelo quickly hired Showalter as future manager of the Diamondbacks.

Also on hand for the game were Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, coach Yogi Berra, and players Reggie Jackson, Bucky Dent, Lou Piniella, Bobby Murcer, Goose Gossage, Tommy John, and Johnny Oates.

New York Giants owner Tim Mara was awarded the Horsemen franchise in payment of a debt and proceeded to lease it to C. C. Pyle for his New York Yankees team.

Steinbrenner's fame became cemented as owner of the New York Yankees MLB franchise from 1973 until his death in 2010.

Some notable people whose Requiem Masses were said at the cathedral include New York Yankees greats Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, and Billy Martin ; legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, singer Celia Cruz, former Attorney General and U. S. Senator from New York Robert F. Kennedy, New York Giants owner Wellington Mara, and former Governor of New York Hugh Carey.

* George Steinbrenner ( 1930 – 2010 ), owner of the New York Yankees baseball team

In, Bob Lemon managed the American League team after having been fired by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.

) In 1988, on Saturday Night Lives " Weekend Update ," comedian Dennis Miller opened the sports with, " In Calgary tonight, Katarina Witt won the gold medal in figure skating, prompting Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to fire manager Billy Martin.

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

This, of course, is baseball's most remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman ( Babe ) Ruth of the Yankees.

* 1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the " Pine Tar Incident ".

* 1990 – George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of New York Yankees for hiring Howie Spira to " get dirt " on Dave Winfield.

The Royals vanquished the Yankees in a three-game sweep punctuated by a George Brett home run off of Yankees ' star relief pitcher Goose Gossage.

* 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.

** CBS sells the New York Yankees for $ 10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner ( 3. 2 million dollars less than CBS bought the Yankees for ).

* July 24 – American Civil War – The Second Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep the Yankees out of the Shenandoah Valley.

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 ).

CBS then gave serious thought to building a stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands before selling the Yankees to George Steinbrenner in 1972 for $ 10 million.

Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.

* Yankees ( with John Zorn and George Lewis, recorded 1983 ; issued variously on Celluloid and Charly )

Some claim that the first appearance of the wave was a section by section cheer at a Major League Baseball game that was led by professional cheerleader Krazy George Henderson in Oakland, California on October 15, 1981, in an American League Championship Series game between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees.

* George Zeber, former player for the New York Yankees

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

Steinbrenner went on to buy the New York Yankees in 1973.

Steinbrenner jumped at the chance to involve another hero of his youth with the Yankees ; Lemon had been one of Steinbrenner's coaches during the Bombers ' pennant-winning 1976 season.

When Reggie Jackson tells a young kid how me might improve his swing, he tends to listen ," said Hal Steinbrenner, Yankees ' managing general partner and co-chairperson.

In, the feud between Steinbrenner and Winfield had escalated to the point where Steinbrenner was " banned for life " from running the Yankees because of his connections to Howie Spira, a known gambler with Mafia connections, whom he had paid $ 40, 000 for embarrassing information on Winfield.

Lemon led the Yankees to the 1981 World Series but did not make it to the ' 82 All-Star Game as manager after again being fired by Steinbrenner, so Billy Martin, skipper of the 1981 AL runner-up Oakland Athletics, led the All-Star squad.