Herman Hernandez, the general manager of a youth baseball team sponsored by New York Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner, has died. The death of the co-founder of Hank's Jr. Yanks was announced in a statement from Steinbrenner and Hank's Yanks manager Ray Negron. Negron and Hank's Jr. Yanks official Sandy Kyrkostas confirmed Hernandez died Thursday morning of an apparent heart attack.

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The New York Yankees' slide continues thanks to a Rays' comeback. Sam Fuld and B.J. Upton both hit two-run homers to help Tampa Bay rally and hand the Yankees' their sixth consecutive loss with a 6-5 victory Monday night. The New York slide includes a three-game sweep by Boston at Yankee Stadium over the weekend that miffed team co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner.

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Hank Steinbrenner says he's not upset that team captain Derek Jeter supported Jorge Posada. The New York Yankees co-chairman isn't too happy, however, with how the team is playing. Posada pulled himself out of the lineup over the weekend, saying he needed a day off, and a public spat ensued between the slumping slugger and club management.

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Bless his heart, HankenStein cannot be silenced for long. In the most recent edition of the New York Post,...

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Hank Steinbrenner's youth baseball team has produced a professional pitcher. The New York Yankees have signed 19-year-old Leonel Vinas to a minor league contract. The right-hander from Long Island was the ace of Hank's Yanks, a team sponsored by Steinbrenner, co-chairman of the Yankees. Vinas started a game this year at Yankee Stadium in which Hank's Yanks beat a squad sponsored by New...

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Lou Piniella has an invitation to take part in next year's Old-Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. Piniella was at a New York Yankees' fantasy camp on Thursday and spent about 30 minutes talking with team co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner. Steinbrenner says he's sure Piniella will take part in the festivities.

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New York Yankees co-chairman Hank Steinbrenner told the New York Daily News that the Yankees will return to the postseason in 2010. "I think were doing great considering (Andy Pettitte is) out and a couple of other problems," Steinbrenner said. "Obviously, we're in the toughest division by far in baseball. So it's going to be a struggle down to the wire. We'd like to win the division, but I think we can be rest assured we're going to get the playoffs, then it's a matter of what we do from there." The Yankees are tied...

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Hank Steinbrenner took a couple of media callers at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. While they were there, he said...

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A lot brewing today including the 3am firing of Willie Randolph and Hank Steinbrenner looking to change how the NL plays ball because Chien-Ming Wang broke his foot.  One is kinda like someone punching your cousin and the other is like seeing a child cry because one of his favorite toys is broken.

First with Willie, forever a Yankee, it will be the Mets’ loss that he’s gone.  Like many say, he was set up to fail by a power structure that did not support him…the Mets’ management wanted Randolph gone and thus Randolph was blamed for Carlos Delgado’s .242 average as well as slumps by Jose Reyes and the relief pitching. Meanwhile, the Mets’ pitching staff is 6th in the NL in ERA…yet the pitching coach also took a hit.  Foolish.

Perhaps the Yanks will make a little room to bring home a faithful third base and bench coach…

As for Hank…well, I know his years in the game (and then years out) give him the right to brush off NL rules that would have a pitcher run the bases…or is it his money and birth family that give him that right…here’s the million dollar quote:

“The pitcher has enough work to do. It’s something Bud (Selig) needs to address and he needs to address it soon. Don’t give me that traditionalist crap.

“We go to these NL cities, draw great crowds and we end up losing one of our best pitchers. I’m not happy.”

Of course you’re not happy, Hank…you lost a very expensive toy…and it’s hard to buy new 19-game winners. 

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