Welcome back to Breaking Balls, National Edition.

So we got a couple things planned here this week to address, starting with ownership in Major League Sports, specifically in Boston and New York, and what those teams, how those teams now approach their operations versus how they might have done it, even let's call it 20 years ago, or less

than 20 years ago, somewhere in that range, because I think there have been dramatic changes.

Mike Vakaro, the New York Post, will join us to talk about the Yankees and their evolution as

it relates to ownership.

He just had a book recently come out about the Steinbrenner years focusing primarily on

George Steinbrenner, but as well as his sons, one of whom now is the, you know, primarily

runs the team, at least above Brian Cashman, the general manager.

And I also want to get to what I thought was kind of an interesting story

regarding one of the surprising statistics in Major League Baseball here in the early part of the

year. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to start with Mike Fricaro, who recently

wrote a book called The Bosses of the Bronx, focusing on the Steinbrenner family.

And the impetus, you'll hear this from Mike here in a minute.

His impetus for writing the book was that there are a lot of young people who don't

understand what the Yankees were like under George Steinbrenner and to give you some idea

of how that has all changed.

So, you know, ownership now is in many places much,

much quieter and corporate that it was back then. And George Steinbrenner was the prototype

for the insane, ego-driven, obsessed owner in professional sports.

His sons obviously now run the team.

Hal is the one who really oversees it versus Hank.

But we're going to bring in Mike Vicaro to talk about the ownership changes in Major League Baseball,

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