Talk:George Steinbrenner

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Can someone please expand quote section and move to wikiquote? zellin 20:29, Apr 30, 2005 (UTC)

The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... George Steinbrenner for the economic divide in Major League Baseball should be added. TMC1982 2:18, May 8, 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 fixed a seinfeld quote 2 Money 3 No shameless plugging, please 4 Quotes Page 5 Failure

[edit] fixed a seinfeld quote

george's father never said "what the fuck did you trade jay buhner for?" he said what the HELL. fixed it.

[edit] Money

How did he get rich to buy the Yanks?

Steinbrenner spent one season with the Boilermakers before joining his father's struggling company, the American Shipbuilding Company, the following year. --andrew 03:34, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Indeed the article says this, but I don't know if that's enough to explain where he got 10 million dollars. I don't think at that time, a season of coaching would pay anywhere near that kind of money, so the question then goes to "joining his father's struggling company". If it's stuggling, how did he manage to find enough money just joining it to buy sports teams? Just wondering. I think the article could use a bit more detail on where his money came from TheHYPO 12:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No shameless plugging, please

I removed a link to the self-proclaimed "best Yankee forums on the net".

[edit] Quotes Page

Someone should clarify on the quotes page which quotes are actually by the real-life Steinbrenner and which are by the Steinbrenner played on Seinfeld. This section is rather confusing and may be misleading. —Ua747sp (talk) 05:48, 9 Aug 2006 (UTC)

I agree, I don't think he ever said "....Free agency could ruin baseball".--Fayettehelle,NC 05:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Failure

Someone recently added "Failure" section that follows Seinbrenner's "Success" section. I believe that this section should be removed, or at least edited. For starters, it is not definitively the "most devastating collapse in baseball history." Seeing as there is no quantifiable way to measure a "devastating collapse" of this nature, I will change that part for now. If someone wants to come along later and fix up the entire section (or remove it if it seems unnecessary). --Nichenbach 20:42, 28 August 2006 (UTC)