By John Manasso, Foxsportssouth.com
July 13, 2010
There are so many ways to assess the tenure of legendary New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. I was thinking: What is a way that I could do it that would be unique?
I grew up a Yankee fan, which hardly makes me uncommon (though I did it while growing up in Massachusetts, which does to a degree), but over the years as I started covering sports as my profession, my fervor for the Yankees waned. So I thought I would consult two men who followed the entirety of the Steinbrenner Era closely: my father, Roy Manasso, 66, who grew up in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood, and my-father-in-law, John Tuccillo, who will be 65 in October and who grew up in Queens' Bellerose neighborhood.
My father attended his first Yankees game with my Grandpa Joe in 1953 when he was 9 years old. By the time he was 10,
