Baseball giant George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner, dies of heart attack
Intimidating: George Steinbrenner was known in baseball as The Boss
12 April 2012
New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has died aged 80,
according to the New York Daily News
Steinbrenner suffered a heart attack at 6:30am today in Tampa, Florida, a source with the baseball team said.
The Yankees won 11 pennants and seven World Series titles during Steinbrenner's ownership, which began in 1973. He bought the club for $8.8 million and turned it into a multibillion-dollar sports empire.
Steinbrenner, nicknamed "The Boss", had been suffering from failing health, the result of a series of strokes, for the past few years.
He was a well-known figure in US popular culture, often pictured on the back pages of New York's tabloids wearing his trademark white turtleneck sweater under a blue blazer and was regularly made fun of in the TV sitcom Seinfeld.