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The New York Post lead sports columnist Mike Vaccaro may be one of the last of the legendary general sports newspaper columnists. From Jimmy Cannon to Dick Young to Mike Lupica, New York has been a sports newspaper town forever, led by the top columnists. Vaccaro has continued that tradition.

He’s also a best-selling author with his latest, The Bosses of the Bronx: The Endless Drama of the Yankees Under the House of Steinbrenner out this spring.

Vaccaro is the guest on the 52-minute “The Main Event with Andrew Marchand.”

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The Rundown …

* How in the 1970s, Vaccaro first dreamed of being a sports columnist for the New York Post when his dad brought him to Shea Stadium

* From Ian O’Connor to Mark Kriegel to Wally Matthews, Vaccaro had big competition

* Former New York Post sports editor Greg Gallo told Vaccaro that “sometimes I have to hire a search party to get the point out of your column”

* What type of athlete was Vaccaro growing up

* How did he get Gallo to hire him at The Post

* Jerry Izenberg, Dave Anderson and Steve Serby were all great mentors

* How a college-aged Vaccaro wrote Lupica a letter and Lupica wrote back …

* Later, the relationship changed

* Vacarro said he wasn’t perfect either in the relationship when it was Post vs. News

* His relationship with Harvey Araton, Anderson and George Vecsey were better

* The great advice he received from Anderson and O’Connor

* The St. Bonaventure connection from Adrian Wojnarowski, Chris LaPlaca, Tim Bontemps and more

* Assessing Woj as the St. Bonaventure Men’s Basketball GM

* What Vaccaro’s first jobs were like

* How Vaccaro was fired in Fayetteville

* His fight with Frank Broyles over Title IX that led to issues

* He would annually call the guy who fired him with a profane message

* How a Peter Hamill line stuck with him over the firing

* Editor Bill Burr giving him a second chance

* Marchand tells how he was almost fired from his first job in Texas

* How Vaccaro gives credit to his father for how to act

* In the Kansas City Star, Vaccaro had to compete with Joe Posnanski, Jason Whitlock and more in what was an All-Star staff

* How he is happy for others, like Steve Politi, when they do award-winning work

* His rivalry with Frank Isola …

* How Isola should’ve been a 20-year newspaper sports columnist

* Why Lou Lamoriello has been the best person to cover

* A tremendous Lamoriello/Larry Brooks story

* How Lamoriello gave Rick Pitino his break

* What Vaccaro has learned in ripping Steve Phillips and Jeff Wilpon

* Calling Wilpon, “Paris” as in Hilton

* Yelling with Steve Phillips about making his wife cry … and a good line

* Isiah Thomas appearing in a clown suit on the back page

* His editor at Harper/Collins, Sean Desmond, hatched the idea for the Steinbrenner book

* The new book is written in Vaccaro’s columnist’s voice

* Steinbrenner calling Vaccaro in the middle of the night

* Discussing the Yankee payroll today compared to yesteryear

* Vaccaro goes through the process dealing with his leg amputation

* How it has impacted his job

* Vaccaro fears the Papa Clicker review

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