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September 01, 2005
The Good Stein
Stein helps out, again:
The New York Yankees and the NFL are each donating $1 million to the American Red Cross to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said the franchise was "heeding the President's call to help the people devastated by this hurricane in the affected areas.
"This is one of America's greatest natural disasters and tragedies and it is the responsibility of the American public to step up and help those in need."
Of course, this is not the first time that Big Stein has reached into his pocket to help.
Steinbrenner can be overwhelmingly generous.
After the father of Ron Karnaugh died during the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Steinbrenner -- a U.S. Olympic Committee vice president for part of that decade -- paid the swimmer's medical school expenses.
In 1975, when Tony Fossas couldn't afford to go to college, Steinbrenner arranged to pay for a four-year scholarship at the University of South Florida.
In 2000, George Steinbrenner donated $1 million on behalf of the Yankess to the Twin Towers Foundation.
In 1998, Steinbrenner donated two $100,000 checks to Hurricane George Relief Efforts.
In 1981, Steinbrenner started the Silver Shield Foundation - to provide a college education to families of slain firefighters and police officers.
In 2000, Steinbrenner gave $1.5 million towards the new band room in OSU.
There are so many more stories like this of Stein giving. People rarely talk about this kind of stuff when discussing George.............that's a shame.
Posted by Steve Lombardi at September 1, 2005 11:32 AM
Comments
In 2003, he paid for Tim Battle's medical bills for treatment of his bone cancer. (Battle is the CF for the Charleston RiverDogs this year)
Posted by: Jen at September 1, 2005 12:31 PM
He also picked up all the bills for Tim Battle ( a prospect) when he was going through cancer.
http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/sports-0/112356799470690.xml&coll=1
Posted by: James at September 1, 2005 12:34 PM
Whoa - sorry Jen, guess you posted while I was writing that.
Posted by: James at September 1, 2005 12:36 PM
S'ok. Thanks for the link.
Posted by: Jen at September 1, 2005 12:46 PM
He also donated a $1 million after the terrible tsunami in South East Asia last year. The donation was split between the Bush-Clinton Fund and the Clinton Foundation Tsunami Recovery Project.
Posted by: Mike at September 1, 2005 02:07 PM
I believe he paid, through the Yankee Foundation, for Matthew McGough's (the author of the Yankee Bat Boy book, which is what the Clubhouse TV show was based on) college education at Williams College.
Posted by: Patrick at September 1, 2005 02:35 PM
Not all of it. But, he gave him several thousand bucks.
Posted by: Steve Lombardi at September 1, 2005 03:25 PM
I also heard that Stein paid for all of Bernie's classical guitar training. Money very well spent indeed.
Posted by: Josh at September 1, 2005 03:31 PM
So, let's get this straight - the richest league in the world (the NFL) gives as much as one single owner in MLB? Not only that but the othe 29 teams plus MLB as an organization have done squat.
Well done Mr Steinbrenner
Posted by: Makofan at September 2, 2005 10:07 AM