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- <text id=93TT1109>
- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: The Boss Is Back
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- SOCIETY
- The Boss Is Back
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Steinbrenner returns to baseball, but not as a kinder, gentler
- George
- </p>
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- <p> George Steinbrenner for Marge Schott--IS that a fair baseball
- trade? The bigots' Mrs. Malaprop begins her year's suspension
- from the Cincinnati Reds just as Steinbrenner, the sport's most
- belligerent, beguiling owner, returns to the New York Yankees,
- 2 1/2 years after he was ousted as managing partner by Fay Vincent,
- then the commissioner. With Schott you got Schottzie 2, her
- drooling St. Bernard. But George needs no dog. He can growl
- at reporters, fetch overpriced free agents and bite the occasional
- manager. He can do everything but heel.
- </p>
- <p> The Boss was back with bluster intact, posing as Napoleon for
- a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover. Sportswriters welcomed him, for
- unlike the drab slumlords who run most teams, Steinbrenner is
- good copy: a reprobate of Dickensian, comic complexity. And
- like Saddam Hussein, the principal owner gets to gloat that
- he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of
- a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks
- were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson
- did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain
- themselves from the buying sprees Steinbrenner made fashionable.
- George, we're guessing, will not need a cap. Only a muzzle.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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