Joan Steinbrenner

Elizabeth Joan Steinbrenner (née Zieg; August 25, 1935 – December 14, 2018) was an American philanthropist[1] and vice-chair of the New York Yankees baseball team.

[2][3] Elizabeth Joan Zieg[4] was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio to a "wealthy family involved in real estate development"[5] and attended Upper Arlington High School in Columbus, where she played basketball, football, and hockey.

[2] In 1973, her husband, George Steinbrenner, led a group of investors who bought the New York Yankees baseball team, and she became involved with running the business.

[8][9] In the 1980s, she was vice-chair of the Tampa Bay Downs board of directors,[10][11] eventually buying and racing horses with her husband under the Kinsman Stables name, and greyhounds under the kennel name Jo-Bett Kennels, with a friend, Betty Hater.

[20] In Florida, she was state chairwoman for the Special Olympics held there in 1981 and 1982 and sat on the boards of the National Society to Prevent Blindness, the St. Joseph's Hospitals Foundation in Tampa, the Children's Home Network in Tampa and the Florida Orchestra,[2] for which she, along with her husband and the New York Yankees, underwrote productions.