Book Review: George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire

Abusive, cruel, philanthropist, loyal, disloyal, good samaritan, phony, vengeful, manipulative, vindictive, delusional, a guy with a heart of gold, a real giver, financial deadbeat, bully, kind-hearted… Tampa Bay’s most famous resident, George Steinbrenner, has probably been called all these things and more at one time or another, but rarely have so many conflicting characterizations appeared in the space of one book.

Now they have — in George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built The Yankee Empire, the laugh-out-loud biography by St. Petersburg author Peter Golenbock. Read the rest of this entry »

Two more things

  1. The Hillsborough School board can’t agree on secular vs. non-secular holidays but didn’t have any problem naming a new high school for what passes for a hero and celebrity in Tampa Bay: NY Yankees partner George Steinbrenner. The Boss was convicted of felony charges in connection with illegal campaign contributions made to Nixon in the 1970s, and he was later pardoned. The Boss has done lots of charity work in our area, no doubt, but his offer to snitch on other political wrongdoers back in the 1970s is perhaps more insightful as to whether he should have a school named after him.
  2. Why is everyone in a snit about Mitt Romney’s failure to address the wackier aspects of his religion to the exclusion of any questioning of how evangelical Christians have/would run this country (see: Bush, George W., and Huckabee, Mike)
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