After George Steinbrenner, Who is the most famous baseball team owner in history?

[teosdesserts]

Originally Posted by Handsome Wes

Most famous owners, a thread

Yankees: Steinbrenner
Red Sox: Yawkey
Orioles: Angelos
Blue Jays: Comcast
Rays: the current dudes who aren't trying to win

indians: veeck
royals: kaufmann
tigers: the briggs family, or one of the two pizza guys
twins: the kid in Little Big League
White Sox: Comiskey

Mariners: Nintendo
Angels: Autry
Oakland: Charles Finley
Rangers: George W. Bush
Astros: Jim Crane

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Braves: Ted Turner
Marlins: the dude who put the Home Run statue up
Mets: Will be Steve Cohen
Phillies: oh gosh, i have no idea
Nationals: Lerner Family

Cubs: Wrigleys or Al Spalding
Cardinals: Anheuser-Busch
Pirates: Didn't bing crosby have an ownership stake at one point?
Reds: Marge Schott, of course
Brewers: Probably Bud Selig

Rockies: Monforts
GIants: I think John McGraw was an owner as well.
Padres: McDonalds
D'Backs: What's the name of the guy who owns them?
Dodgers: Walter O'Malley, although Branch Rickey had a stake as well

It’s Rubenstein for the Orioles by several orders of magnitude.

[NHRonin]

Ray Kroc, McDonalds owner also owned the Padres.

Also has a Mark Knopfler song about him called “Boom Like That.”

[finfangfan]

Originally Posted by NHRonin

Ray Kroc, McDonalds owner also owned the Padres.

Also has a Mark Knopfler song about him called “Boom Like That.”

Inspired by this thread I ended up picking up this Ray Kroc card off of COMC. I actually worked at McDonalds as a teen so always admired him. The back of this card has a write up about his purchasing the Padres. Pretty cool!

[NHRonin]

Originally Posted by finfangfan

Inspired by this thread I ended up picking up this Ray Kroc card off of COMC. I actually worked at McDonalds as a teen so always admired him. The back of this card has a write up about his purchasing the Padres. Pretty cool!

Was my first tax paying job too. Nice pick up.

[brewtown107]

Bud Selig is pretty well known in baseball circles, having been commissioner for a long time. Not well liked, though!