Farewell to the Boss

Some eight years ago, when I was writing a Profile of George Steinbrenner, he showed me around the practice facility near Legends Field, the Yankee's spring training ground in Tampa, Florida, which was later named after him. The clubhouse, which was mainly used by young players the Yankees had hired out of school or college, was festooned with aphorisms about the importance of winning, which Steinbrenner held as the supreme sporting virtue, and, perhaps, the supreme virtue, period. But on...