George Steinbrenner, 1930-2010

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After buying the Cleveland Pipers of the soon-to-be-bankrupt American Basketball League, Steinbrenner tried and failed to buy baseball's Cleveland Indians. But in 1973, Steinbrenner (along with Michael Burke, Lester Crown, John DeLorean and Nelson Bunker Hunt as partners) was able to successfully purchase the New York Yankees from CBS for almost $10 million.

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