George M. Steinbrenner
III
Success in both the world of business and sports is nothing
new to George M. Steinbrenner III, Principal Owner of the New York Yankees.
In 1973, Mr. Steinbrenner put together the group that purchased
the New York Yankees from CBS. Under his direction, it took just five years
for his aggressive leadership to turn the Yankees once again into World
Champions. In the decade of the 1980's, the Yankees won more games than
any other club in Major League Baseball during that same period.
His success in the sports world is not limited to the Yankees.
Mr. Steinbrenner was a multi-sport athlete at Culver Military Academy, where
he is in the Athletic Hall of Fame, and at Williams College. He began his
coaching career as an assistant football coach at two Big Ten schools, Northwestern
and Purdue, and followed that by assembling championship basketball teams
in both the National Industrial and American Basketball Leagues.
A recipient of four honorary doctorate degrees, Mr. Steinbrenner
is involved heavily in various civic and community causes. He is the founder
of the Silver Shield Foundation in New York City, which provides college
educations for children of policemen, housing and transit police, fire-fighters
and state troopers who gave their lives in the line of duty.
Mr. Steinbrenner has served as Chairman of the Olympic Overview
Commission, which was created to evaluate the structure and efforts of the
United States Olympic program. In February 1989 he was elected to the position
of Vice President, U.S. Olympic Committee, a position he still holds. He
probably devotes as much time and effort to the U.S. Olympic Committee as
he does to his many other sporting endeavors. As a representative of the
U.S. Olympic Committee, he accompanied the U.S. Olympic team to Albertville,
France in 1992 and Lillehammer, Norway in 1994.