The end of an era!

This really surprised me when I saw the press release, but Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has ceded control of the team to his sons, and will now serve in a sort of chairman role with the organization. I've lost track of how long Steinbrenner's owned the team (I think from the early '70s), but like so many long-standing patriarchs (like JoePa), I didn't think he'd ever step down.