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Owners Approve Sale of Dodgers to Murdoch - latimes  Mar 20, 1998 ... Transfer of ownership to Fox Group ends O'Malley family dynasty, the oldest in baseball. ... the purchase of the Los Angeles Dodgers by Rupert Murdoch's Fox ... war with Murdoch and who was attending his first owners meeting in nine ... He left the meeting by a back door immediately after Thursday's vote,...
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History of the Los Angeles Dodgers - Wikipedia  The history of the Los Angeles Dodgers begins in the 19th century when the team was based in ... On April 18, 1958, the Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in LA, defeating the ... He led the National League with triples in 1959. ... was in 1998, when the O'Malley family sold up to Rupert Murdoch's Fox company.
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Turner Aims To Stop Dodgers Sale | The Spokesman-Review  Mar 18, 1998 ... After a meeting of baseball's ruling executive council ended ... Ted Turner, who has fought Rupert Murdoch and likened the practices of his rival to those of Adolf Hitler, intends to attend his first baseball meeting in years to thwart the sale ... a baseball owners' meeting since March 1989, one baseball official...
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Ted Turner & CNN1980s & 1990s | The Pop History Dig  Nov 29, 2008 ... In 1963, at the age of 24, after his father committed suicide, Ted ... Undaunted, he kept buying up programming and broadcast rights to old ... networks tried to squash Turner before he even started; they went to Congress stop him. ..... in 1998 when Murdoch acquired the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team...
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Rupert Murdoch - Wikipedia  Keith Rupert Murdoch /mrdk/, AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born ... In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a ... in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S. television ownership. ... He began to direct his attention to acquisition and expansion, buying the...
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BASEBALL; Brewers Cleared to Shift To N.L. Central in '98 - The ...  Nov 6, 1997 ... Major League Baseball's executive council made that move official yesterday, ... to make the Brewers the National League's 16th team for the 1998 season. ... They felt that Bud Selig, the acting commissioner and Brewers' owner, wanted to ... Selig has denied that that goal was his intention, but he has also...
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Morning Buzz, December 15, 2006 - SportsBusiness Daily ...  Dec 15, 2006 ... ... Indicted In BALCO Scandal. , Roger Goodell Says NFL Will Look For Ways To Honor Lamar Hunt .... For $1000: "This NBA team had that type of bear in Canada ; now that they moved, they should be called 'The Elvises.'"...
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History of News Corporation Limited  FundingUniverse  News Corp. also owns 85 percent of the Fox Entertainment Group, 40 percent of ... In 1964, News Ltd. launched The Australian, Australia's first national .... that News Corp. bought into the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation also in 1983. ... During 1985, Murdoch and his closest advisers planned the removal of all the...
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Fox Group Reaches Agreement To Buy Dodgers From O'Malley - WSJ  News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified .... LOS ANGELES -- News Corp . subsidiary Fox Group announced a deal ... media mogul Rupert Murdoch control of baseball's last family-owned team. ... News Corp. was expected to retain the properties, and company executives ... Post Comment...
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Morning Buzz, July 17, 2006 - SportsBusiness Daily ...  Jul 17, 2006 ... The team comes first  Marlins manager Joe Girardi, on MLB Commissioner Bud Selig's proposal to .... For $800: Stephon Marbury, a Brooklyn native and childhood fan of this team, joined them in 2004  with mixed results..
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J! Archive - Show #3865, aired 2001-05-25  Playing for the Texas Rangers, this man became the first pitcher to strike out 5,000 batters ... In 1989 this Japanese corporation bought Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion ... In 1985 Nestle's bloomed when it acquired this American maker of evaporated milk from contented cows...
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Independent Lens . CHAVEZ RAVINE . Talkback | PBS  29 1958.. the first year and last home game in LA.. i have allways been a fan.. and as i ... Fans love for their team, and how we all seem'd to have stolen their Joy of the Dodgers. ... I had allways heard about the last House in Chavez Ravine. ..... to see Major League Baseball in their city and help bring L.A. big league status.
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What does Rupert Murdoch own? A little bit of everything - USA Today  Jun 11, 2015 ... Media magnate Rupert Murdoch got his start in a chain of Australian newspapers. ... With 84-year-old Murdoch handing over control of daily operations at 21st ... Below are holdings in which Murdoch's two big companies, 21st Century ... Yankees Entertainment, Fox Sports Go); Fox Sports 1; Fox Sports 2...
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Rupert Murdoch facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  On November 19, 1976, Murdoch bought the New York Post from Dorothy Schiff for ... By then Murdoch owned about 30 percent of British newspapers. ... Companies were not supposed to own a television station and a newspaper in the ... In 1997 he bought Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers for $350 million,...
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BASEBALL - Steinbrenner Does It Again - Green Out, Dent In ...  Aug 19, 1989 ... LEAD: George Steinbrenner, saying his mushrooming differences with Dallas ... made the 17th managerial change in his 17 seasons as owner of the Yankees. ... By MURRAY CHASS, Special to The New York Times ... In fact, when he was hired last Oct. 7, he became the owner's first manager with no...
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Miami Marlins on Baseball Almanac  But by the time Jim Leyland became manager in 1997, Huizenga's free agent money ... They were also the first wild card team in major league history to win it all. ... the first team to lose 100 games the season after winning the World Series. ... Jack McKeon to manage and brought up feisty pitching prospect Dontrelle Willis.
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EDITOR PURCHASES OAKLAND TRIBUNE - NYTimes.com  Robert C. Maynard announced today that he had completed his ... Published: May 1, 1983 ... Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain, sold The Tribune so that it could buy a San ... family, which dominated Republican Party affairs in northern California. ... New York City's top public schools must become more diverse.
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Joe Gibbs savors fourth championship as team owner - USA Today  Nov 23, 2015 ... Joe Gibbs is now a better racing team owner than a football coach  if the numbers count. ... as owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, the NASCAR team he started in 1992. Gibbs, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, won Super Bowl ..... 3. Amid 'rigged' election charges, Russia wants to monitor U.S. vote.
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Steinbrenner remembered as 'The Boss,' in addition to charitable ...  Jul 13, 2010 ... He bought the New York Yankees in 1973 for $10 million. ... "He was very emotional," said Hal Steinbrenner, his father's successor as managing general partner. ... "I'll stick to building ships." ... the Hall of Famer vowed he wouldn't go to back to Yankee Stadium for a game until Steinbrenner apologized.
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Angels Hoping to Catch Break With Scioscia - Page 2 - latimes  Nov 18, 1999 ... The Angels have butted heads with the Dodgers for almost 40 years, ... Dodger all-star will be introduced today as the club's 16th manager in 39 seasons. ... Player: Two-time all-star catcher spent 13 seasons with Dodgers.
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NIXON TO ARBITRATE UMPIRE DISPUTE - NYTimes.com  Former President Richard M. Nixon, a baseball fan who has friends on both sides of the issue, has agreed to arbitrate the dispute between the major league owners and the umpires ... Published: October 16, 1985 ... Mr. Nixon is believed to be the first former President to agree to arbitrate a labor dispute after leaving office,...