Even if you never watched a baseball game in your life, there was a pretty good chance you were well acquainted with George Steinbrenner, the 80-year-old New York Yankees owner who died on Tuesday.

Steinbrenner — or at least a bumbling version of the baseball baron — appeared on 14 episodes of “Seinfeld” as the boss of George Costanza (Jason Alexander), the assistant to the team’s traveling secretary.

The Steinbrenner double, always with his back to the camera and voiced by series co-creator Larry David — who had fantasized as a kid about working for the Yankees — was depicted as a nitwit with a fondness for calzones, Pat Benatar and Cuban cigar wrappers.

“(David) really created this very caricature, this very mercurial personality who’s just completely all over the place and neurotic,” star and co-creator Jerry Seinfeld later recalled.

And on the eighth day, God created Eric Clapton in his own image. And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good…

Consider what author Charles Swindoll says: “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than the past, than education, than money, than what people say or do. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace. We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.

Another product manager bound for Gehenna…