Written by Sam Smith of Bulls.com. Reprinted with permission from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
It began for Jerry Reinsdorf with a casual, if fortuitous, dinner with George Steinbrenner. George had been complaining, as usual, about a lot of things, his third place baseball team, his manager, his right fielder, his manager, the Chicago Bulls.
Reinsdorf, who by now was sort of one of the Junior Lords of Baseball as managing partner of the Chicago White Sox, perked up a bit. That was his city, his adopted basketball team, one he’d shared season tickets to watch for the last decade or so.