The following excerpt is from an article posted in the April 8, 2013 edition of newsnet5.com:
CLEVELAND – About a half mile from where the New York Yankees played the Cleveland Indians for the Cleveland team’s baseball home opener, a name almost synonymous with the New Yorkers’ baseball club has been etched on the walls of a Cleveland monument for more than 100 years.
George Steinbrenner’s name is carved in the wall of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument on Cleveland’s Public Square. Steinbrenner, great great grandfather of New York Yankee owners Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, was a Clevelander who enlisted with the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served in the Civil War.
“The lesson of service that George brought in the Civil War that has allowed the family to continue the community service not only in Cleveland, but also in New York,” said Tim Daley, executive director of the monument. Dedicated in 1894, the monument in the center of Cleveland was a tribute to the residents of Cuyahoga County who were in the Union military forces during the civil war in the first half of the 1860s.
