Tom Brady joins a club of these 22 Tampa Bay sports legends

The Tampa Bay sporting scene has objectively never had a sports legend as big as the one who will be joining them for Sundays next fall. But that doesn’t mean that Tom Brady won’t have his work cut out for him if he wants to become one of the city’s …

George Steinbrenner

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The late Yankees owner called Tampa his adopted hometown and it showed in his behavior. The Yankees moved into a spring training stadium in 1996 that now bears his name and was a big philanthropist for many causes in the area. “I’ll tell them until they’re tired of hearing it. I don’t like in New York. I live in Tampa, Fla.,” he said in 1997.