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a The Atlanta Braves sale in 2007 to Liberty Media was part of a complex swap of cash, stock, magazine holdings, and the Braves, in which Time Warner sent the Braves, a hobbyist publishing company, and $980,000,000 to Liberty in exchange for approximately 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock, at the time worth $1.48 billion.
Pages in category "Lists of Major League Baseball owners and executives" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [60] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [61]
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, "Arizona Baseball, Inc.", to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
Two women have independently owned majority stakes of an MLB franchise without inheriting it. Joan Whitney Payson, previously a minority owner of the New York Giants, was the first owner of the New York Mets and played a big role in bringing the National League back to New York City after the Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers moved to the West Coast ...
The New York Yankees are a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise based in The Bronx, New York City, New York.They play in the American League East division. This list consists of the owners, general managers (GMs) and other executives of the Yankees.
William Louis Veeck Jr. (/ ˈ v ɛ k / VEK; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill" [1] and "Wild Bill", [2] was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox.
[33] Concurrent with the growth of Major League Baseball, the Cardinals value has increased significantly since the Baur-DeWitt purchase. In 2000, the franchise was valued at $219 million, [34] a growth rate of 327%. Since 2012, the franchise's value grew 21%.