{"id":6347,"date":"2010-07-13T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2011-01-20T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T17:10:59","slug":"yankees-owner-george-steinbrenner-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/07\/13\/yankees-owner-george-steinbrenner-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/14\/sports\/baseball\/14steinbrenner.html?src=mv\" target=\"_blank\">George Steinbrenner<\/a>, long-time owner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.yankees.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=nyy\">New York Yankees<\/a>, died today in Tampa, FL at the age of 80 after<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6348\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/07\/steinbrenner.jpg\" alt=\"steinbrenner\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" \/> suffering a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Boston University Professor of Sports Journalism <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/frank_shorr.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Shorr<\/a> reacts to the passing of the baseball icon calling Steinbrenner a &#8220;lightning rod&#8221; who made the sport better:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He was a lightning rod certainly, but always had the best interest of his team in mind.\u00a0 He never failed to make the Yankees better and, in turn, baseball better.\u00a0 Sure, he spent a lot of money, but he filled ballparks, albeit with teams you often loved to hate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact: Frank\u00a0Shorr,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fshorr@bu.edu\">fshorr@bu.edu<\/a> or 617-353-5163.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Steinbrenner, long-time owner of the New York Yankees, died today in Tampa, FL at the age of 80 after suffering a heart attack. Boston University Professor of Sports Journalism Frank Shorr reacts to the passing of the baseball icon calling Steinbrenner a &#8220;lightning rod&#8221; who made the sport better: &#8220;He was a lightning rod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2626,3350,3351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/7664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}