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Goldman Sachs steps in between A Rod, Yankees
By A. James Memmott | November 16, 2007 at 2:35pm | 0
Talk about a firm for all seasons.
We’ve already shown that investment bank Goldman Sachs is a power in politics and in finance, sending its executives off to presidential cabinets and elective offices and to lead other companies.
And now there’s proof that Goldman can hit home runs in baseball as well.
Word is out that two of Goldman’s managing directors, John Mallory and Gerald J. Cardinale, helped bring the New York Yankees and superstar Alex “A Rod” Rodriguez back into contract talks.
It would seem they did what Scott Boras, Rodriguez’s agent and one of the most powerful and vilified men in sports, couldn’t do. Though, rest assured, Boras will make money on this deal.
