newsday.com - 2/8/2008
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Tampa officials have given their blessing to rename Legends Field in honor of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
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... . The final terms are four years, $30 million with two one-year options that could keep him a Yankee through 2013. The AP reports the Yanks are planning to rename Legends Field after George Steinbrenner. Apparently they have the city of Tampa's blessing to do so, though the team didn't need it. Jorge Posada is in Tampa already and has started working out, ...
Legends to become “Steinbrenner Field”
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From Newsday:
Tampa officials have given their blessing to rename Legends Field in honor of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
Not that they needed to approve the idea, Tampa councilman Charlie Miranda noted Thursday after the council voted unanimously to encourage the christening.
Miranda expects the Yankees to go forward with the naming and officially do it on Feb. 29 at the start of a spring training game against the University of South Florida.
A nice gesture since his money built the damn thing.
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