Inside the Derek Jeter-Brian Cashman feud that festered for years before Stanton heist

An exclusive excerpt from the new book “Inside the Empire: The True Power Behind the New York Yankees” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, out March 26). The General Manager Meetings each fall are baseball’s version of a buddies’ fishing junket to Belize. Executives harrowed by the grind of the season — six months of seven-day/eighty-hour weeks; back-page…