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When George Steinbrenner died earlier this month, the eulogies were careful in noting his public evolution, curiously spending little time on the surrounding forces that as much as any individual epiphany were responsible for his transformation.
He was ferocious, firing managers at an average of one per season over his first 18 years as owner of the New York Yankees. He was the furious Boss, tyrannical and driven, unpredictable and impossible to control.
Then, in the final two decades of his life, Steinbrenner was publicly rehabilitated, celebrated for what came to be seen (if you viewed him from afar) as nothing more than benign and impatient grumpiness. The new take: The old man just wanted to win for his city. By the end, Steinbrenner was as much a maverick...
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