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“Steinbrenner … said that in rapid succession he threw three punches – two rights and a left. Down went the first miscreant; down went the second.”

June 17, 2004


Murray Chass (The New York Times – free registration required) has written a good piece on the alledged fight between George Steinbrenner and two youths in an elevator in L.A. during the 1981 World Series.

Steinbrenner said he responded with an obscenity, whereupon one of the men hit him on the side of the head with a beer bottle he was holding. Steinbrenner, 51 years old at the time, said that in rapid succession he threw three punches – two rights and a left. Down went the first miscreant; down went the second.

Muhammad Ali? He might have stung like a bee, but Steinbrenner said he swung a sledgehammer.

“I clocked them,” Steinbrenner told reporters just before midnight in a news conference he called in his hotel suite. “There are two guys in this town looking for their teeth…

Good stuff.

Via Alex.

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