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Has been for so very long. one woman showed up and said, i'm 28 years old and i've been a yankees' fan as long as i can remember and she said attach george steinbrenner to that. every since she was born. this is a man who bought the new york yankees with a group of businessmen back in 1973. do you know how much they paidt $8.7 million. that's it. first big hire for george steinbrenner, when he really started putting the world-famous new york yankees together, it was in 1977, five years after he bought the team. he hired slugger reggie jackson. this is a man who the yankees in a statement today...

Win. >> he's pushy and hard and he made a lot of things happen. so i think he will be admired because although he made a lot of enemies along the way, he also spent a lot of time trying to rectify those relationships. >> at 80 years old, certainly a controversial figure in sports. as you read, chris, the yankees call him a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. only 80 years old, he just had his 80th birthday. the voice of the yankees and this is something very specific to new york, he's famous around here, bob shepard, the man you would always hear announcing all the players at yankee ...

The boss, bob sheppard, the voice of the team, both gone in the same week. george steinbrenner, of course, having a massive heart attack. and so, right now, fans are beginning to pour in and talk to us and react, and let's take a listen to what they had to say. >> we're here to pay our respects to him, to show our respect and let him know how much we appreciated everything he's done for the yankees. >> right in the middle of the yankee because he is the yankees. because of him, the yankees are who they are today. >> reporter: look, george steinbrenner had critics, too, right? some of the yanke...

the red sox and the dodgers? nobody knows that, but everybody associates george steinbrenner with the new york yankees since 1973. baseball is dependent on numbers. it always has been. from 1982, they lost to in '81 and in '82 he changed managers and batting coaches five times and he was the guy in charge, he was the boss and he'll forever be remembered for being the boss. >> we can't ignore the fact that he was controversial. many people believed that the yankees won because they had the larger money to pay out. they bought championships. >> certainly something to that. yes, he paid...

and i'm told that under the law a violation of this charge could carry a maximum of the death penalty. so what we have here is a nearly five-year investigation of this shooting. the pictures you're seeing here were taken by an nbc news camera crew over the industrial canal in new orleans. this is september 4, of 2005, just a week after katrina moved through and ravaged new orleans. an urgent radio report went out saying police officers down, that budget truck that you see, that rent-a-truck was what police -- when it was all over, two people were killed, eight people were wounded. wh...