Growing up in New York I was a fan of both the Mets and the Yankees until I was 10 years old in 1973. Sure the Mets were my favorite team but I was a young sports junkie, and my dad’s team was the Yankees, so I watched every game, and cheered on the team especially the late great Bobby Murcer who he traded. After that I stopped watching.

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"Steinbrenner" by Bill Madden (HarperCollins, $26.99, 480 pages, 16 pages of photographs) is a mother lode of information on the man they used to call "the Boss." Madden, has been on the scene for more than 30 years covering the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News and is the 2010 recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award.