Update: (9:15pm CDT) According to Joel Sherman of The New York Post , via Twitter , Steinbrenner was admitted to the hospital late Monday night for a procedure and had a heart attack early this morning while already at the hospital.
Update: (8:53am CDT) According to sources close to the Steinbrenner family, George Steinbrenner passed away this morning due to a massive heart attack. He was 80-years old.
Long time Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has suffered what is being called a massive heart attack and is in critical condition according to WABC television. A Fox News report says Steinbrenner was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Florida late Monday night.
His health has been failing over the last few years and it forced him to hand over the day-to-day operations of the New York Yankees to his sons since 2006.
The thoughts and prayers are definitely with him and his family and you have to believe that this has taken the Yankee family by surprise especially since a lot of their players are either in Anaheim, California for the All-Star game or on a mini-vacation during the all star break.
More news to come as it breaks.
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