George Steinbrenner's Pipe Dream: The ABL Champion Cleveland Pipers
By Livingston
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By Livingston
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Steinbrenner nearly beats the Cavaliers to the NBA by eight years
In an eleventh-floor corner office in downtown Cleveland during the spring of 1961, 30-year-old 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-seat basketball palace, Steinbrenner said to Larry Siegfried, the just-graduated captai...


