Michael Schriner sends along this message:

Last summer the NY Times featured a story about a 60 year old letter collection written by the future NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The story highlighted excerpts of his letters that were sent to Mary Jane Elster (maiden name).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/sports/baseball/16ohio.html

These fascinating letters revealed much about George’s formative years. After the story was published Mary Jane was asked to co-author a book and was asked to donate her letters to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, the Yankees intervened to block both.

According to Lonn Trost of the Yankees, the letters “Will cause untold embarrassment and damages to the Steinbrenner family and the Steinbrenners’ business interests.”

Richard Sandomir of the NY Times and Ron Blum of AP covered the Yankees response last October,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/15/sports/baseball/15steinbrenner.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=11972951

Over the last year Mary Jane has shared her first hand accounts about George on her blog,
http://mjschriner.wordpress.com . Over 10,000 visitors have already enjoyed her stories.

Now at the age of 79, Mary Jane can no longer read her letters due to failing eyesight. Through her blog, she feels that she has shared her stories to enlighten people about George.

Since she cannot donate the letters to the Hall of Fame for all to see, she would like to make them available to a collector that will be able to share them with other fans. Anyone interested in her letter collection can contact her directly at elster.michael@yahoo.com.

Michael is Mary Jane’s son. I can see where a collector would find this a very valuable item.