Rumors are swirling around baseball that the Yankees could soon be put up for sale by the Steinbrenner family. The family has owned the Major League franchise since Cleveland shipbuilder George Steinbrenner purchased the club for $8.8 million in 1973. Multiple baseball and finance sources told the New York Daily News that the team could be put on the block in the wake of the record sale price of $2.175 billion the Dodgers went for in April. "There has been chatter all around the banking and financial industries in the city for a couple of weeks now," one high-level baseball source told The Daily News.