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The Mike Francesa Podcast

George Steinbrenner's Legacy and Iconic Stories with Mike Vaccaro

The Mike Francesa Podcast

BetRivers Network

Sports, Baseball, Football

4.6938 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Mike Francesa and Mike Vaccaro discuss his new book "The Bosses of the Bronx," a deep dive into the Yankees under Steinbrenner's ownership with all its infamous tales and characters. 00:00 The Bosses of the Bronx 00:27 George's Impact on Yankees 02:20 Yankees Ownership Evolution 03:25 Steinbrenner's Legacy 05:10 Yankees' Iconic Moments45:00 Hank and Hal Steinbrenner #yankees #steinbrenner

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0:00.0

It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

0:05.0

Hello again, everybody.

0:06.1

Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network.

0:09.1

Today, we're going to do a book review, and we don't do a lot of them because I only do

0:14.3

book reviews if I read the book and I have an interest in the book.

0:17.6

I had an interest in this one, asked Mons to go get it.

0:20.7

The bosses of the Bronx.

0:22.5

Let me hold it up here. Okay, Harper Collins. So you know, it's a big time publisher.

0:27.8

Basically, the story of the Yankees from the day George bought the team. I remember it well.

0:34.1

And anybody who's my age, okay, anybody who's hanging around and now is 70 or 80 or

0:41.9

older or even a little younger remembers all the years with George, the good, the bad, the ugly,

0:48.5

the pretty. And now as he's gone and the championships have stopped coming.

0:54.9

The stuff that happened that people didn't like, they don't care about so much anymore.

0:59.3

Now George is almost deified and it's almost what would George have done on a daily basis.

1:05.1

So that's very much a theme.

1:07.4

Mike Vicaro, who you know very well from the Post, wrote the book. Again,

1:14.6

if you're a Yankee fan, if you're a baseball fan, terrific read, entertaining, fast-paced,

1:20.7

a lot of juicy stories. And again, stories you know, but you might not know every little

1:26.5

wrinkle of the stories through the years from

1:29.8

Billy and George and Gabe Paul and all the craziness that went on in those years. And people

1:36.6

don't realize the 70s and 80s were insane compared to 2000 was calm compared. You know, the years where they had the dynasty was calm you know

1:46.8

george once in a while throw a fit or you know flutter clubhouse but you know those days in the old days

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