George Steinbrenner and the philosophy of losing badly:
That the Yankees won more often than they lost seemed beside the point.
Bio: Michael Shapiro was five when the Dodgers left Brooklyn. He is a professor of journalism at Columbia and is the author of eight books about East Asia, child welfare, and baseball. His most recent book, Bottom of the Ninth, is about Branch Ricky, Casey Stengel and the Continental League.
