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Calvin Robertson Griffith (December 1, 1911 – October 20, 1999), born Calvin Griffith Robertson, was a Canadian-born American Major League Baseball team owner. As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955 through 1984, he orchestrated the transfer of the Senators after 60 years in Washington, D ...
Calvin Griffith inherited the team from uncle and family patriarch Clark Griffith in 1956 and moved it to the Twin Cities in 1961. Pohlad bought the team for $43.5 million—$32 million for the controlling 52% stake held by Calvin and his sister, Thelma Griffith Haynes, and $11.5 million for minority owner H. Gabriel Murphy's 40.4% interest.
It officially opened in 1941, and was the home of the Hornets for the next 31 years. The ballpark would keep the name Griffith Park for the Charlotte Orioles inaugural season in 1976, before being renamed Jim Crockett Memorial Park (often simply referred to as "Crockett Park") in 1977, after Jim Crockett, husband of O's owner Francis Crockett.
The Twins moved to Minnesota in 1961 after Washington Senators owner Calvin Griffith moved the team east. The franchise has been owned by only two families for more than 100 years, starting with ...
Calvin Griffith moved the Twins to Minnesota from Washington because "you only had 15,000 blacks here." Skip to main content. News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726. Login / Join. Mail ...
Calvin Griffith; Howard Fox; Andy MacPhail (1985-1994; Won WS in 1987 and 1991) Terry Ryan (1995-2007, again from 2012) Bill Smith (2008-2011) Terry Ryan (after first ...
Star Tribune Minnesota Sports Hall of Fame members1958: Bernie Bierman, Tommy Gibbons, Frank Goheen, Fortune Gordien, Walter Hoover, Harrison "Jimmy" Johnston, George Mikan, Tommy Milton, John ...
Clark Calvin Griffith was born on November 20, 1869, in Clear Creek, Missouri, to Isaiah and Sarah Anne Griffith. His parents were of Welsh ancestry. They had lived in Illinois before Clark Griffith's birth. The family took a covered wagon west toward the Oklahoma Territory. Along the way, the family encountered hungry and disenchanted people ...