Well, maybe “partner” is the wrong word. (Does this mean Buzz Bissinger will now be asking me if I ever read W.C. Heinz?) It’s more like Hank and Leitch will both be contributors to the new Sporting News.
As a kid, I loved The Sporting News. And, being a pack-rat, I kept them. I think I had every print issue from 1977 through 1990. Maybe I’m off by a year or two there? It could have been every issue from 1978 through 1991? But, ballpark, it was every issue from the late ’70’s to the early ’90s. I had them boxed – and stored in my parent’s basement.
When my parents sold their house on Staten Island, to move to New Jersey, my mom finally laid down the law “These are yours – so, take them or lose them.” By then, I was married and had my own house. So, I moved the boxes to my basement.
At the end of 1999, when it was time for us to move from Staten Island to New Jersey, my wife “suggested” that it was time to let them go. Since we were in a massive purge mode, I tossed them. At the time, I also had every issue of USA Today Baseball Weekly from it’s first issue, in 1991, through the late 1990’s. (Just about the time The Sporting News began to slide in the quality of it’s baseball coverage, Baseball Weekly took over as my number one hardball print resource). Those copies of Baseball Weekly bit the dust in our move as well.
For a good twenty years – first with The Sporting News and later with USA Today Baseball Weekly – those hard-copy papers were a great fix for a baseball addict like me. However, once the internet really started hopping with baseball-stuff, in the late ’90’s, those old fixes became stale and lacking.
Hank Steinbrenner and I are not that far apart in age. (He’s 5 years and 8 months older than me.) I wonder if he grew up devouring The Sporting News like I did, as a kid, and this is part of the lure for him to be part of the new Sporting News? He can’t be doing it because he needs the cash…for sure.
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June 12th, 2008 at 9:00 am
This is such a bad idea. Hank being Hank, I’m sure no one can talk him out of it but I sure do wish someone could talk some sense into him. He’s willinginly participating in something that will bring a tremendous amount of undue attention (and distractions) to the team.
With every passing day, I admire John Henry more and more. He’s rich, he’s smart, he’s quiet, and he lets his baseball people do the talking for him. I would never, EVER want to be a Red Sox fan or from Boston but I do wish our owner were more like him.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:52 am
John Henry = Hal Stein
and
Larry Lucchino = Hank Stein
It’s not like the Red Sox don’t have their own version of Hank.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Well, other than the fact that John Henry has been one of Selig’s 2 favorite bagmen (the other being Jeffey Loria), I guess it would be nice to see Hank wear a pith helmet during Spring Training a la Henry. And he’s so smart:
“John W. Henry & Co., the Boca Raton, Florida-based firm of principal Red Sox owner John Henry, has seen many of its portfolios tumble more than 20 percent this year. Its flagship Strategic Allocation fund, with $2.6 billion invested in a range of financial and commodity futures, has declined 27 percent, according to the company’s Web site.”
I wonder if he lets his baseball people run his hedge fund as well.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:14 am
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