George Steinbrenner’s Pipe Dream: The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
In an eleventh floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30 yearold George Steinbrenner sketched with his hands the future as he dreamed it. He grabbed the young basketball player who was sitting near him by the shoulder with one hand and jabbed the air with invisible designs with the other. A glittering 12,000 …