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NEW YORK YANKEES OWNER GEORGE STEINBRENNER DIES AT 80
Baku, July 15 (AZERTAC). The owner of the famed New York Yankees baseball team, George Steinbrenner, has died at the age of 80. He transformed the Yankees franchise he bought in 1973 for $8.7 million into a $2-billion empire, VOA reports.
It has been a week of sad news for the New York Yankees, the baseball team many consider to be the premier sports franchise in America, if not the world.
First, Bob Sheppard, "the Voice of the New York Yankees" from 1951 to 2006, died Sunday at the age of 99, and now, George Steinbrenner, the blustery, larger than life Yankees owner both fans and foes called "the Boss" has passed from the scene at the age of 80.
Steinbrenner died early Tuesday following a massive heart attack at his home in Tampa, Florida.