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| x Edmonton Investors Group Limited Partnership | Edmonton Oil Kings |
The Edmonton Investors Group Limited Partnership was the limited partnership that owned the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, and is currently an owner of the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League.. With more than thirty...
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| x Wycliffe Grousbeck | Boston Celtics |
Wycliffe "Wyc" Grousbeck is CEO, Governor, and co-owner of the National Basketball Association basketball team the Boston Celtics.
Grousbeck, after spending 7 years as a partner at a venture capital firm, Highland Capital Partners, put together and...
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| x Michael Heisley | Memphis Grizzlies |
Michael E. Heisley is an American businessman who is the majority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. He orchestrated the move of the team from Vancouver in 2001, after promising to keep the franchise in Vancouver when he purchased it in 2000. Heisley...
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| x Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. |
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Toronto Raptors |
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) is the owner and operator of the Toronto Maple Leafs National Hockey League team, Toronto Raptors National Basketball Association team, Toronto FC Major League Soccer team, and Toronto Marlies American...
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| x Paul Allen |
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Seattle Seahawks |
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which is his private...
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| x Bruce Ratner | New Jersey Nets |
Bruce Ratner (born January 23, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a real estate developer and the current owner of the NBA's New Jersey Nets.
Ratner first became owner of the Nets when he headed an ownership group that purchased the franchise from...
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| x Herbert Kohl |
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Milwaukee Bucks |
Herbert H. "Herb" Kohl (born February 7, 1935) is an American politician, business leader and philanthropist. A Democrat, he currently serves as the senior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin and is the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks National Basketball...
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| x James Dolan | New York Knicks |
James Loraine Dolan (born 1956) is Chairman of the Board of Cablevision Systems Incorporated -- parent company of the Madison Square Garden corporation, in New York City. James Dolan also serves as Chairman of Madison Square Garden and is well-known...
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| x Glen Taylor | Minnesota Timberwolves |
Glen A. Taylor (born April 20, 1941) is an American businessman who is the majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team, owner of the Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball team, and a former member of the Minnesota State Senate.
Taylor grew...
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| x Christopher J. Cohan | Golden State Warriors |
Christopher J. Cohan is the current owner of the Golden State Warriors of the NBA. He acquired a 25-percent interest in the team in 1991; in 1995, he became sole owner; he sold 20 percent of the team to four Silicon Valley investors in 2005.
Cohan's...
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| x Robert Sarver | Phoenix Suns |
Robert Sarver (born 1961 in Tucson, Arizona) is the current majority owner of the Phoenix Suns. He bought the NBA franchise from Jerry Colangelo in the spring of 2004.
His father was Jack Sarver, a prominent Tucson businessman, banker and hotel...
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| x Ed Snider |
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Philadelphia 76ers |
Edward M. Snider (born January 6, 1933, Washington, D.C.) is the Chairman of Comcast Spectacor, a Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment company which owns the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA, the Wachovia...
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| x Richard DeVos | Orlando Magic |
Richard DeVos, Sr., (born March 4, 1926, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.), educated at Calvin College, is an American billionaire and co-founder of Amway (restructured as Alticor in 2000). In 2009, Forbes magazine listed him as the 91st wealthiest...
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| x Mark Cuban |
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Dallas Mavericks |
Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team, and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network.
Mark Cuban (his family's last name was shortened from Chabenisky...
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| x Abe Pollin |
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Washington Wizards |
Abe Pollin (born December 3, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the current owner of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Washington Wizards, and former owner of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Washington Capitals and Women's National...
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| x Peter Holt |
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San Antonio Spurs |
Peter M. Holt (born 1949 in Peoria, Illinois) is a businessman. He is the CEO of HOLT CAT, the largest Caterpillar dealership in the United States and chairman, CEO, and owner of Spurs Sports & Entertainment, which owns the 4-time NBA champion San...
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| x Dan Gilbert | Cleveland Cavaliers |
Daniel "Dan" Gilbert (born January 17, 1962 in Detroit, Michigan) is the Chairman and Founder of Quicken Loans Inc. and Rock Financial, as well as the majority owner of the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Gilbert founded Rock...
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| x Donald Sterling | Los Angeles Clippers |
Donald T. Sterling is an American real estate mogul, attorney, and the current owner of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers. Sterling acquired the Clippers in 1981 for $12.5 million, and as of the 2008 rankings, the team is...
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| x Micky Arison | Miami Heat |
Micky Arison (born June 29, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli-American businessman and the Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator, and owner of the NBA's Miami Heat.
Forbes magazine places Arison's...
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| x William Davidson | Detroit Pistons |
William Morse "Bill" Davidson, J. D. (December 5, 1922 – March 13, 2009) was an American entrepreneur and professional sports owner and a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
He was the chairman of Guardian Industries Corp., one...
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| x Jerry Buss | Los Angeles Lakers |
Gerald Hatten Buss (born 27 January 1934 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team along with other professional sports franchises in southern California.
Buss worked his way through the University...
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| x Larry H. Miller |
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Utah Jazz |
Lawrence Horne "Larry H." Miller (April 26, 1944 – February 20, 2009) was a Utah businessman and philanthropist. Well known as the owner of the NBA's Utah Jazz, Miller was also the owner of 39 automotive dealerships throughout the Western United...
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| x Jerry Reinsdorf |
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Chicago Bulls |
Jerry M. Reinsdorf (born February 25, 1936) is a C.P.A., lawyer, and the majority owner of the MLB's Chicago White Sox, and the NBA's Chicago Bulls. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the Internal Revenue Service. He has been...
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| x Howard Schultz |
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Seattle Supersonics |
Howard Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman, and entrepreneur best known as the chairman and CEO of Starbucks and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. Schultz co-founded Maveron, an investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan...
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| x Maloof family |
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Sacramento Kings |
The Maloof family is an American family of Lebanese descent which owns numerous business properties in the Western United States. They are best known as the owners of the Sacramento Kings of the NBA (and their home stadium, ARCO Arena). The family...
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| x E. Stanley Kroenke | Denver Nuggets |
Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke (born July 29, 1947 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American business entrepreneur who is listed in the Forbes 400 as one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is estimated to be about $3.5 billion and based...
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| x Jerry Jones |
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Dallas Cowboys |
Jerral "Jerry" Jones (born October 13, 1942, in Los Angeles, California) is the owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise and the Dallas Desperados Arena Football League franchise.
Jones attended college at the University of...
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| x George N. Gillett Jr. | Liverpool F.C. |
George Nield Gillett Jr. (born October 22, 1938, in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American businessman, former owner of the ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, and co-owner of English Premier League team Liverpool F.C. and the NASCAR auto racing team...
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| x Jeffrey Vanderbeek | New Jersey Devils |
Jeffrey Vanderbeek is the owner of the New Jersey Devils, a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League. Vanderbeek, a New Jersey native and Devils season ticket holder since the late 1980s, became a minority owner when Puck Holdings,...
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| x Dan Snyder |
Dan Snyder (February 23, 1978 - October 5, 2003) was a professional Canadian ice hockey player. He played as a centre in the National Hockey League for the Atlanta Thrashers.
Undrafted, Dan Snyder was signed by the Thrashers as a free agent in 1999....
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| x Roman Abramovich |
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Chelsea F.C. |
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (Russian: Рома́н Арка́дьевич Абрамо́вич, pronounced [rʌˈman ʌrˈkadʲɪvʲɪtʃ ʌbrɐˈmovʲɪtʃ]; born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russian SFSR, USSR) is a Russian billionaire and the main owner of the private investment...
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| x Malcolm Glazer | Manchester United F.C. |
Malcolm Irving Glazer (born May 25, 1928) is an American businessman and sports-team owner. He is the president and chief executive officer of First Allied Corporation, a holding company for his varied business interests, most notably in the food...
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| x George Steinbrenner |
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New York Yankees |
George Michael Steinbrenner III (born July 4, 1930) is an American billionaire businessman, and owner and the former principal executive of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees. His outspokenness and role in driving up player salaries have made...
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| x Jeffrey Loria | Florida Marlins |
Jeffrey H. Loria is an art dealer and is owner of the Florida Marlins. Born November 20, 1940 and raised in Manhattan, Loria took an early interest in baseball, attending his first New York Yankees game in the late 1940s. Loria attended New York...
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| x Zygi Wilf |
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Minnesota Vikings |
Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf (born April 22, 1950) is the principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.
Wilf was born in Germany. His parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Wilf, are both Holocaust survivors from Poland. The Wilf family...
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| x Eugene Melnyk | Ottawa Senators | ||
| x Bud Adams | Tennessee Titans |
Kenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams, Jr. (born January 3, 1923 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) is the owner of the Tennessee Titans National Football League franchise. He was a charter owner in the former American Football League with the Titans' predecessor...
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| x Mike Ilitch |
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Detroit Red Wings |
Michael "Mike" Ilitch Sr. (born July 20, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan), is an entrepreneur and owner of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers. In addition to his sports ownerships, he is the founder and owner of Little Caesars Pizza since 1959,...
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| x Dan Gardner | San Ramon Bludgers | ||
| x Robert Kraft |
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New England Patriots |
Robert K. Kraft (born June 5, 1941 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American businessman who is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of The Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and...
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| x Al Davis |
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Oakland Raiders |
Allen "Al" Davis (born July 4, 1929, in Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American football executive, who currently serves as the principal owner (titled as "president of the general partner" or "managing general partner," depending on the source) of...
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| x Tom Benson |
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New Orleans Saints |
See also Tom Benson (American football) and Tom Benson (politician) for the Northern Ireland Unionist.
Tom Benson (born 1927 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was the owner of the New Orleans Saints NFL team. He is currently the owner of several automobile...
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| x Chicago Tribune |
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The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (for which WGN radio and television is named), it...
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| x Pat Bowlen | Denver Broncos |
Patrick Dennis Bowlen (born February 18, 1944 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin) is the Majority Owner, President, and Chief Executive Officer of the Denver Broncos. The Bowlen Family, including his two brothers and sister, purchased the team from...
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| x Frank McCourt | Los Angeles Dodgers |
Frank McCourt is an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine. In 2004, he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Prior to purchasing the...
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| x Randy Lerner | Cleveland Browns |
Randolph D. Lerner (born February 21, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American entrepreneur and sports team owner.
Lerner has been the owner of the American football team, the Cleveland Browns, of the National Football League (NFL) since October...
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| x Tribune Company |
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Chicago Cubs |
The Tribune Company is a large, employee-owned, American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, responsible for the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando...
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| x T-Mobile |
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T-Mobile is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom and belongs to the FreeMove Business alliance.
T-Mobile is a group of mobile phone corporate subsidiaries (all under the ownership of Deutsche Telekom) that operate GSM and UMTS networks in Europe and the...
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| x Virginia Halas McCaskey | Chicago Bears |
Virginia Halas McCaskey (born January 5, 1923) is the principal owner of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. She is the eldest child of legendary Bears coach and owner George Halas, who left the team to his daughter upon his death in...
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| x Dan Rooney |
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Pittsburgh Steelers |
Daniel M. Rooney CBE (born July 20, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is the American owner and chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers football team in the National Football League (NFL) and United States Ambassador to Ireland.. He is the son of team...
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| x Robert Irsay |
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Indianapolis Colts |
Robert Irsay (March 5, 1923–January 14, 1997), was an American professional football team owner; he owned the National Football League's Baltimore/Indianapolis Colts franchise and, briefly, the former Los Angeles Rams.
In 1972, the Chicago-born...
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| x Jim Irsay |
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Indianapolis Colts |
James (Jim) Irsay (born June 13, 1959 in Lincolnwood, Illinois) is the owner of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. The son of a Jewish father (Robert Irsay) and a Polish mother, he attended high school at Loyola Academy in...
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| x John Mara |
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New York Giants |
John K. Mara (born December 1, 1954 in New York, New York) is the president, CEO, and co-owner of the New York Giants. He is the oldest son of former Giants owner Wellington Mara.
Mara grew up in a wealthy White Plains neighborhood. A 1972 graduate...
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| x Steve Tisch |
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New York Giants |
Steven "Steve" Tisch (born February 14, 1949) is an American businessman. He is the chairman, executive vice president, and co-owner of the New York Giants, as well as a film and television producer. He is the son of former Giants co-owner Bob Tisch...
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| x Bill Kenwright | Everton F.C. |
Bill Kenwright O.B.E. (born 4 September 1945, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England) is a leading West End theatre producer.
He is also the Chairman of Everton Football Club, an English professional football club from the city of Liverpool.
He attended...
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| x Clark Hunt |
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Kansas City Chiefs |
Clark Knobel Hunt (born February 19, 1965) is Chairman of the Board of the National Football League's Kansas City Chiefs and a founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer. Hunt inherited ownership of Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew and FC...
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| x Denise DeBartolo York | San Francisco 49ers |
Marie Denise DeBartolo York (born 1950 in Youngstown, Ohio) is the owner of the San Francisco 49ers. She is the daughter of late construction magnate Edward J. DeBartolo Sr. and the late Marie Patricia Montani DeBartolo.
DeBartolo grew up in a...
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| x Peter Karmanos, Jr. |
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Carolina Hurricanes |
Peter Karmanos, Jr. (born in Detroit, Michigan) is the CEO of Compuware Corporation and owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, Plymouth Whalers and Florida Everblades hockey franchises.
Born into a Greek immigrant family, Karmanos did not start speaking...
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| x Drayton McLane, Jr. | Houston Astros |
Drayton McLane, Jr. is an American entrepreneur. He is chairman of McLane Group and chairman and CEO of the Major League Baseball's Houston Astros. In 2008 he was ranked #301 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.
He was born 22 July 1936 in...
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| x Arturo Moreno |
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Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim |
Arturo "Arte" Moreno (born August of 1946) is an American billionaire of Mexican descent. On May 15, 2003, he made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball...
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