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Hello Hal Steinbrenner, Goodbye George

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Steinbrenners

MLB.com reports that Major League Baseball owners designated Hal Steinbrenner as control person of the New York Yankees. Commissioner Bud Selig announcement came on Thursday, officially ending George Steinbrenner’s 35-year tenure as the Yankees’ boss.

Hal Steinbrenner, the co-chairman of the team along with his older brother, Hank, will now be the liaison between the Commissioner’s office and the team and the point person for the club at all future owners’ meetings.

Hank will continue to remain in charge of baseball operations. Hal was named control person because he’s in charge of the team’s business operations.

Read the full article on MLB.com

More importantly… Hank remains in control of baseball operations so the name of my blog will remain HanksYankees.com.. phew.   I’ll be posting soon about the departure of George.  Love him or hate him he turned a $9M investment into a multi-billion dollar “empire”.

:: Donnie23

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