NEW YORK - George Steinbrenner, the impact on the baseball went far beyond his New York Yankees.
He showed that all the teams spending lavishly on players - when you are done intelligently - one way was to produce winners, and even some of his rivals took this strategy. He revolutionized the game with his decisions to a TV network to start and a catering company, and a huge equipment supply contract.
"No matter what one's personal opinion, and obviously he was a close friend, his historical impact was," said Agent Tom Reich-Wednesday, a day after the colorful and controversial owner died of a heart attack at the age of 80
"There are many aspects of the system that would not exist without what he was able to do with the Yankees, was not only a team but as a brand and a business conglomerate. And that changed the topography of the financial game. "
Steinbrenner heads a group that is evaluating the Yankees in January 1973 bought for $ 8,700,000 net and turned it into a large company at 1.6 billion U.S. dollars by Forbes.
As his health began to return after the 2003 season, shifting power Steinbrenner, the children and the team management.
Hal Steinbrenner, the younger son, was Managing General Partner in November 2008. Hal runs the business for yourself, Hank's older brother and sisters Jessica and Jennifer.
Team president Randy Levine oversees the finances of the Yankees, the YES Network and Legends Hospitality. Goldman Sachs has interests in television and food, and the Dallas Cowboys co-own catering business.
Lonn Trost, the team, Chief Operating Officer, is responsible for the franchise's day-to-day business affairs and general manager Brian Cashman consolidated authority over baseball personnel decisions when he agreed a three-year contract in December 2005, an agreement followed by another agreement in 2008.
In the second season of $ 1500000000 new Yankee Stadium, New York has unrivaled resources. The Yankees won their seventh World Series title under the Steinbrenner ownership of last season, their first since 2000. A $ 206,000,000 opening day payroll was $ 43,000,000 higher than any other team, and the fruit shows that the expenditure. The Yankees' 56-32 record at the All-Star break is baseball's best, and she put a high eight players in the All-Star game.
"The crew is not for sale," Levine said Wednesday. "The result has been planned and implemented. Yankees fans can expect the team to run, as they were based on the vision of the boss as performed by his family."
Hal Steinbrenner was Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday along with Hank. While according to the team's formation Spring Training home, she spent time memories of her father.
"The family is good," said Hank. "Yesterday was hard. I want to thank everyone for the messages of sympathy, especially the fans."
were outside the stadium, the usual advertising in the message board of "George M. Steinbrenner III / We will miss you" and ", George M. Steinbrenner III /" The Boss "1930-2010."
Funeral plans were still possible in training, with a private ceremony Saturday in Tampa and Ocala, where the family has a horse farm.
Public memorial services have been under discussion for Tampa when the Yankees play there, 30 July-Aug. 1 and for New York, with plans announced for next week.
Tributes were for Friday and Saturday in Yankee Stadium for Steinbrenner and longtime public address announcer Bob Sheppard, the Sunday school, died with 99 planned. Many former Yankees will be in the stadium on Saturday for historic Day.
"The last two days have been filled with great emotion and personal reflection," Reggie Jackson said in a statement released by the Yankees. "The relationship I heard along with the boss. The fact that both encouragement and comfort me during this difficult time. It means so much to so many people, and I will always cherish him as a leader, a winner and a friend .. . I take this time to reflect the enormous and lasting imprint he made in the game of baseball, in the entire Yankees organization, and in my life. "
For many it's hard to picture without the pinstripes Steinbrenner they monitor, with its unique mix of demands for excellence and unrestrained rage.
"He will be one of the largest owner in the history of baseball, and go all sports. Nobody wanted to win more than Mr. Steinbrenner," former Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams said. Be "I knew I had to keep on top of my game to the high expectations that he meet. He made me a better baseball player - and I will be eternally grateful for him."
In Washington, the U.S. Senate has unanimously adopted a resolution introduced Tuesday night by members from New York and Florida Memorial Steinbrenner lives and works.
"Said George Steinbrenner was larger than life, and he was a winner," New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. "His single-minded drive to put the pursuit of excellence, pride and glory of the Yankees franchise and all of New York City."
AP contributed freelance writer Mark Didtler in Tampa, Florida, on this report.
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