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Jeff Smulyan, Emmis Broadcasting, Michael Browning and the Morgan Stanley Group, Inc., with Smulyan as chairman: 1989–1992 Nintendo of America, represented by CEO Howard Lincoln: 1992–2016 [1] [2] Baseball Club of Seattle, LP, represented by CEO John Stanton: 2016–present [3]
As one of 17 minority owners in the team, [5] in April 2016, Stanton was appointed as the new CEO of the Seattle Mariners organization after Nintendo sold its majority stake for $661 million. [5] [20] Major League Baseball formally approved the sale of the Mariners to Stanton in August of that year. [21]
The Mariners were created as a result of a lawsuit. In 1970, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee as the Milwaukee Brewers by Bud Selig, the city of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington (represented by then-state Attorney General and future U.S. Senator Slade Gorton) sued the American League for breach of contract. [9]
Seattle Mariners. Seattle Mariners owner John Stanton. (Ted S. Warren / Associated Press) ... He leads a three-man ownership group that includes Jeffrey Royer and Michael Chipman, all of whom have ...
Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith and wife Kathy Surace-Smith have purchased a stake in the Seattle Mariners, becoming just the third additions to the team’s ownership group since 1992.
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Mather grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984, earning a Bachelor of Arts in accounting and risk/insurance. He worked as a Certified Public Accountant at a firm for five years, before joining the front office of the Minnesota Twins, starting as their director of finance in 1989, and receiving a promotion to vice president in 1992.