List of Los Angeles Dodgers owners and executives
Owners
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Name
Years
Notes
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1
Charles Byrne and Ferdinand Abell
1883-1890

[1]

2
Charles Byrne, Ferdinand Abell and George Chauncey
1891-1897
Merger of Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Brooklyn Ward's Wonders
[1]

3
Charles Ebbets and Ferdinand Abell
1897-1898
Byrne dies, his shares & Chauncey's bought by Ebbets & Abell
[1]

4
Charles Ebbets, Ferdinand Abell, Harry Von der Horst, Ned Hanlon
1899-1904
Merger of Brooklyn Bridegrooms and Baltimore Orioles
[1]

5
Charles Ebbets, Ferdinand Abell, Henry Medicus, Ned Hanlon
1905-1906
Ebbets & Medicus buy out Von der Horst
[1]

6
Charles Ebbets and Henry Medicus
1907-1912
Ebbets & Medicus buy out Abell & Hanlon
[1]

7
Charles Ebbets, Ed McKeever and Stephen McKeever
1912-1925
Ebbets & The McKeevers buy out Medicus
[1]

8
Stephen McKeever, Grace Slade Ebbets, Joseph Gilleaudeau and Brooklyn Trust Company
1925-1938
Ebbets & Ed McKeever die; team becomes officially known as the Dodgers in 1932
[1]

9
James Mulvey & Dearie Mulvey, Grace Slade Ebbets, Joseph Gilleaudeau and Brooklyn Trust Company
1938-1944
Stephen McKeever dies, shares inherited by the Mulveys
[1]

10
Branch Rickey, Walter O'Malley, James Lawrence Smith, and James Mulvey & Dearie Mulvey
1945-1950
Rickey, O'Malley & Smith buy out the Ebbets Estate
[1]

11
Walter O'Malley, Mrs. Smith and James Mulvey & Dearie Mulvey
1950-1958
James Smith dies, leaving his shares to his wife; O'Malley buys out Rickey
[1]

12
Walter O'Malley and James Mulvey & Dearie Mulvey
1958-1975
Dodgers move to Los Angeles, Mrs. Smith sells her shares to O'Malley & the Mulveys
[1]

13
Walter O'Malley
1975-1979
O'Malley buys out the Mulveys
[1]

14
Peter O'Malley and Terry Seidler
1979-1997
Walter O'Malley dies, shares inherited by Peter O'Malley & Terry Seidler
[1]

15
Fox Entertainment Group
1998-1999
Fox purchases the team
[1]

16
Fox Entertainment Group and Robert Daly
1999-2004
Daly buys minority share in team
[1]

17
Frank McCourt
2004-2012
McCourt purchases Dodgers from Fox & Daly
[1]

18
Guggenheim Baseball Management
(Mark Walter, Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten, Peter Guber, Bobby Patton and Todd Boehly)
2012-2018
Guggenheim Group purchases Dodgers after bankruptcy court proceedings
[2]

19
Guggenheim Baseball Management
(Mark Walter, Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten, Peter Guber, Bobby Patton, Todd Boehly)
and
Billie Jean King & Ilana Kloss
2018–2019
King & Kloss buy a minority share of team
[3]

20
Guggenheim Baseball Management
(Mark Walter, Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten, Peter Guber, Bobby Patton, Todd Boehly)
and
Billie Jean King, Ilana Kloss, Alan Smolinisky & Robert L. Plummer
2019–present
Smolinisky & Plummer buy a share of team
[4]

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Charles H. Byrne ( September 1843-January 4 , 1898 ) was a New York realtor who was one of the original founders of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers . Byrne was a graduate of St. Francis Xavier College , and after graduation he worked as a writer for a newspaper . Byrne , his brother-in-law Joseph Doyle , New York Herald editor George J. Taylor , and Rhode Island casino owner Ferdinand Abell formed a group that raised the money to found the Brooklyn ball club in 1883 , known originally as simply the Brooklyns . They leased land on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn to build Washington Park , the team 's original home , which cost $ 30,000 . In its first year , the team played in the minor-league Inter-State Association of Professional Baseball Clubs , winning the league championship . Having attracted a following , the owners moved the franchise in 1884 to the American Association ( AA ) , a competitor to the more established National League ( NL ) , that catered to a more working-class crowd . After managing the team from 1885-1887 , Byrne saw the franchise join the National League in 1890 , and remained in the ownership group until his death in 1898 . Under his tenure , the team , known variously as the Brooklyns , Bridegrooms and Grooms , posted a record of 567-506 and won two league championships ( the AA in 1889 and the NL in 1890 ) . Byrne was in ill health at the time of the National League meeting in November 1897 , but he insisted on making the journey from Virginia , where he had been recovering , to the event in Philadelphia . After the meeting concluded , his health took a turn for the worse , from which he never recovered . Byrne was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside , Queens , New York .
Ferdinand Augustus Gus Abell ( July 8 , 1833 - November 8 , 1913 ) was an American businessman and one of the original founders of the team that became the Brooklyn Dodgers . A Rhode Island casino owner , he put up most of the money to form the team in 1883 and also was the leading financing behind the building of Washington Park , the home of the ballclub . He stuck primarily to the business side of the franchise , letting his partners Charlie Byrne , George Taylor and Joseph Doyle supervise the team 's actual on-field activities . He was the leading force behind the Dodgers merger with the original Baltimore Orioles in 1898 . He remained part of the Dodgers ownership group until he was bought out by Charles Ebbets in 1907 . He died of Bright 's disease in 1913 .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1883 throughout the world .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1890 throughout the world .
George Chauncey was an American businessman in the later part of the 19th century . He was a native of Brooklyn , New York and a baseball fan . He got into the sport by financing the formation of a team in the Players ' League of 1890 that became known as Brooklyn Ward 's Wonders after Manager and Shortstop John Montgomery Ward . Chauncey also financed the construction of a stadium for the Wonders in Brownsville , called Eastern Park . The team and the league lasted only one season . In 1891 , Chauncey arranged a merger of his team with the National League 's Brooklyn Grooms . The deal saw him accumulate a large share of the Grooms stock and he convinced the other owners to leave their previous home at Washington Park for his facility at Eastern Park . He also insisted that manager Bill McGunnigle , who had just won two league championships , be fired and replaced with Ward , which the other owners , desperate for his cash , agreed to . Chancey 's time as owner of the Brooklyn team came to an end in 1897 when he sold his shares in the team to the other owners Ferdinand Abell and Charles Byrne .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1891 throughout the world .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1897 throughout the world .
The Brooklyn Dodgers were a Major League baseball team , active primarily in the National League ( founded 1876 ) from 1884 until 1957 , after which the club moved to Los Angeles , California , where it continues its history as the Los Angeles Dodgers . The team moved west at the same time as its longtime rivals , the New York Giants , also in the National League , relocated to San Francisco in northern California as the San Francisco Giants . The team 's name derived from the reputed skill of Brooklyn residents at evading the city 's trolley streetcar network . The Dodgers played in two stadiums in South Brooklyn , each named Washington Park , and at Eastern Park in the neighborhood of Brownsville before moving to Ebbets Field in the neighborhood of Flatbush in 1913 . The team is noted for signing Jackie Robinson in 1947 as the first black player in the modern major leagues .
The Brooklyn Ward 's Wonders were a baseball team who played in the Players ' League in 1890 . The team 's nickname derived from its superstar shortstop , hall of famer John Montgomery Ward . The team finished with a 76-56 record , finishing in second place . Other notable players for Brooklyn that year were Dave Orr , Lou Bierbauer , George Van Haltren , and Gus Weyhing . The team folded after the season along with the entire league . The team played its home games at Eastern Park .
Charles Hercules Ebbets , Sr. ( October 29 , 1859 - April 18 , 1925 ) was an American sports executive who served as co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1897 to 1902 before becoming majority owner of the team , doing so until his death in 1925 . He also served as President of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1898 to 1925 .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1898 throughout the world .
Harry Von der Horst ( died 1905 ) was an executive in Major League Baseball and a former owner of the Baltimore Orioles and Brooklyn Superbas . He was one of the principal founders and owners of the old 19th century Baltimore Orioles ballclub and when the team was running out of steam he managed to engineer a merger with the Brooklyn team . This move enabled him to get a significant share of the team and exert enough influence to convince the Brooklyn ownership group to hire his manager Ned Hanlon . He eventually sold his interest in the team , but remained as the club secretary until his death in 1905 .
Edward Hugh Hanlon ( August 22 , 1857 - April 14 , 1937 ) , also known as Foxy Ned , and sometimes referred to as The Father of Modern Baseball , was an American professional baseball player and manager whose career spanned from 1876 to 1914 . He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996 by vote of the Veterans Committee . Hanlon was a manager in Major League Baseball from 1889 to 1907 , compiling a 1,313-1,164 ( .530 ) record with five different clubs . He is best remembered as the manager of the Baltimore Orioles ( 1892-1898 ) and Brooklyn Superbas ( 1899-1905 ) . In the seven seasons from 1894 to 1900 , Hanlon compiled a 635-315 ( .668 ) record , and his teams won five National League pennants . During his years with the Orioles , Hanlon was also credited with inventing and perfecting the inside baseball strategy , including the hit and run play and the Baltimore chop . Hanlon also played 13 seasons in Major League Baseball , principally as a center fielder . He played in over 800 games as an outfielder for the Detroit Wolverines , remaining with the team during all eight years of its existence from 1881 to 1888 . He compiled a career batting average of .260 and an on-base percentage of .325 with 930 runs scored and 1,317 hits . Although stolen base records are not available for the early portion of his playing career , Hanlon stole 329 bases ( an average of 55 per year ) in his last six years as a full-time player .
The following are the baseball events of the year 1899 throughout the world .
The 1904 Major League Baseball season . No World Series was held this season . The St. Louis Browns played eleven consecutive games against the Detroit Tigers at Bennett Park in Detroit - the longest regular season homestand in Major League history .
The Baltimore Orioles were a 19th-century American Association and National League ( organized 1876 ) baseball team from 1882 to 1899 . The early ball club , which featured numerous future Hall of Famers , finished in first place three consecutive years ( 1894-1895-1896 ) and won the Temple Cup national championship series in 1896 and 1897 . Despite their success , the dominant Orioles were contracted out of the League after the 1899 season , when the N.L . reduced its number of teams and franchises from 12 to 8 , with a list of teams and cities limited to just the northeastern United States which endured for the next half-century . This controversial action resulting in the elevation of the former Western League by leaders such as Ban Johnson ( 1864-1931 ) , into a newly-organized American League in 1901 of which the new reorganized Baltimore Orioles were a prominent member for its first two seasons which waged war on the elder Nationals .
Henry W. Medicus ( January 29 , 1865 - May 13 , 1941 ) was a wealthy American furniture dealer in Brooklyn , New York in the early 1900s . He became a part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in 1905 when he and Charles Ebbets bought out the shares of the team owned by Harry Von der Horst . He remained a part owner of the ballclub until selling his shares in 1912 .
The 1905 Major League Baseball season , had the second modern World Series . The New York Giants defeated the Philadelphia Athletics to win the World Series .
The 1906 Major League Baseball season .
The 1907 Major League Baseball season . The Chicago Cubs defeated the Detroit Tigers 4-0-1 to win the World Series . The Philadelphia Phillies set a Major League record for the fewest at bats by a team in a season - 4,725 .
1912 Major League Baseball season . Harper 's Weekly conducted a detailed accounting of the expenses of Major League clubs , and came up with a figure of around $ 175,000 to $ 200,000 .
Edward J. McKeever ( March 19 , 1859 in Brooklyn , New York - April 29 , 1925 in New York , New York ) was a construction contractor in Brooklyn in the early 1900s . Ed and his brother Stephen bought half of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team from Henry Medicus on January 2 , 1912 . Together with co-owner Charles Ebbets , they built what became Ebbets Field . McKeever served as Vice-President of the Dodgers until Charles Ebbets died of a heart attack on April 18 , 1925 . McKeever became team president , but despite previously being in good health , he caught a cold at Ebbets ' funeral and died of influenza a little more than a week later . He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn .
Stephen W. McKeever ( October 31 , 1853 in Brooklyn , New York - March 7 , 1938 in Brooklyn , New York ) was a construction contractor in Brooklyn , New York in the early 1900s . He and his brother Ed bought half of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team from Henry Medicus on January 2 , 1912 . Together with Charles Ebbets , who owned the other half of the team , they built Ebbets Field . When Ebbets died on April 18 , 1925 , Ed McKeever took over as team president . However , he caught a cold at Ebbets ' funeral and died on April 29 . Steve McKeever became the acting team president until Wilbert Robinson was elected team president on May 25 , 1925 . Steve McKeever was elected team president on October 12 , 1932 , and remained a 50% owner of the Dodgers until his death in 1938 . He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn .
The 1925 Major League Baseball season .
Charles Hercules Ebbets , Sr. ( October 29 , 1859 - April 18 , 1925 ) was an American sports executive who served as co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1897 to 1902 before becoming majority owner of the team , doing so until his death in 1925 . He also served as President of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1898 to 1925 .
Charles Hercules Ebbets , Sr. ( October 29 , 1859 - April 18 , 1925 ) was an American sports executive who served as co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1897 to 1902 before becoming majority owner of the team , doing so until his death in 1925 . He also served as President of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1898 to 1925 .
The Brooklyn Trust Company was a New York City bank .
The 1938 Major League Baseball season .
James A. Mulvey was the co-owner of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League from 1938 through 1973 with his wife , Dearie Mulvey . In 1938 , he inherited his share of the club from his father-in-law Stephen McKeever 's estate . In 1950 , Walter O'Malley assumed majority control of the Dodgers . The Mulvey 's minority share was purchased by O'Malley in 1975 , 17 years after the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles . Mulvey was also at one point president of Samuel Goldwyn Productions , for which he worked for from 1923 , retiring in 1960 . Mulvey died at Vero Beach , Florida in 1973 after recent years of declining health , where he had a winter home . He was buried in Brooklyn after a funeral was held in White Plains .
Elizabeth Marie Dearie Mulvey ( née McKeever ; June 1898 - November 24 , 1968 ) was the co-owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers of the National League from 1938 through 1950 , then 25 percent minority owner through her death , with her husband , James Mulvey . In 1938 , she inherited one-quarter share of the club from her father Stephen McKeever 's estate . In 1950 , Walter O'Malley assumed majority control of the Dodgers . The Mulvey 's minority share was purchased by O'Malley in 1975 , 17 years after the team moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles . She died at White Plains , New York in 1968 after recent years of declining health . She was survived by her husband and 3 children .
The 1944 Major League Baseball season saw the Cardinals win the World Series four games to two over the Browns in an all-St. Louis Fall Classic .
Wesley Branch Rickey ( December 20 , 1881 - December 9 , 1965 ) was an American baseball player and sports executive . Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball 's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson . He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system , encouraged the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League , and introduced the batting helmet . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967 , two years after his death . Rickey played in MLB for the St. Louis Browns and New York Highlanders from 1905 through 1907 . After struggling as a player , Rickey returned to college , where he learned about administration from Philip Bartelme . Returning to MLB in 1913 , Rickey embarked on a successful managing and executive career with the St. Louis Browns , St. Louis Cardinals , Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates . The Cardinals elected him to their team Hall of Fame in 2014 . Rickey also had a career in football , as a player for the professional Shelby Blues and as a coach at Ohio Wesleyan University and Allegheny College . His many achievements and deep Christian faith earned him the nickname the Mahātmā .
Walter Francis O'Malley ( October 9 , 1903 - August 9 , 1979 ) was an American sports executive who owned the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers team in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1979 . In 1958 , as owner of the Dodgers , he brought major league baseball to the West Coast , moving the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles despite the Dodgers being the second most profitable team in baseball from 1946-1956 , and coordinating the move of the New York Giants to San Francisco at a time when there were no teams west of Kansas City , Missouri . For this , he was long vilified by Brooklyn Dodgers fans . However , Pro-O'Malley parties describe him as a visionary for the same business action , and many authorities cite him as one of the most influential sportsmen of the 20th century . Other observers say that he was not a visionary , but instead a man who was in the right place at the right time , and regard him as the most powerful and influential owner in baseball after moving the team . In 2008 O'Malley was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to and influence on the game of baseball . O'Malley 's father , Edwin Joseph O'Malley , was politically connected . Walter , a University of Pennsylvania salutatorian , went on to obtain a Juris Doctor , and he used the combination of his family connections , his personal contacts , and both his educational and vocational skills to rise to prominence . First , he became an entrepreneur involved in public works contracting , and then he became an executive with the Dodgers . He progressed from being a team lawyer to being both the Dodgers ' owner and president , and he eventually made the business decision to relocate the Dodgers franchise . Although he moved the franchise , O'Malley is known as a businessman whose major philosophy was stability through loyalty to and from his employees . O'Malley ceded the team presidency to his son , Peter , in 1970 but retained the titles of owner and chairman of the Dodgers until his death in 1979 .
John Lawrence Smith ( February 10 , 1889 - July 10 , 1950 ) was a German-born American chemist , pharmaceutical executive , and sportsman . He was born Johann Schmitz in Krefeld , Prussia , in Imperial Germany . When he was three years old , his family emigrated to the United States and settled in Stonington , Connecticut . He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1908 and the family legally changed its name to Smith in 1918 . Smith first joined Charles Pfizer and Company at age 17 while he was studying at night at Cooper Union ( he received his degree in chemistry in 1911 ) , and would spend almost his entire business career at Pfizer . He rose to the positions of director ( 1918 ) , secretary ( 1925 ) , vice president ( 1929 ) , president ( 1945 ) and chairman of the board ( 1949 ) . His only absence from Pfizer , from 1913-18 , came when he was a general superintendent at E. R. Squibb and Sons . In the early 1940s , he supervised Pfizer 's successful development of a process for the large-scale manufacturing of penicillin and is credited as having led the transformation of Pfizer from a chemicals supplier to a research-based pharmaceuticals company .
The 1945 Major League Baseball season . There were 16 teams , eight in both the American League and the National League respectively . The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs for the World Series championship . It would be the Cubs last appearance in the World Series , until 2016 .
The 1950 Major League Baseball season began on April 18 and ended on October 7 , 1950 with the New York Yankees winning the World Series championship , over the Philadelphia Phillies . The only no-hitter of the season was pitched by Vern Bickford on August 9 , in the Boston Braves 7-0 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers . This season saw the first use of a bullpen car , by the Cleveland Indians .
The 1958 Major League Baseball season was played from April 14 to October 15 . It was the first season of play in California for the Los Angeles Dodgers ( formerly of Brooklyn ) and the San Francisco Giants ( formerly of New York City ) . Three teams had relocated earlier in the decade : ( Milwaukee , Baltimore , Kansas City ) . New York went without a National League team for four seasons , until the expansion Mets began play in 1962 .
The 1975 Major League Baseball season saw Frank Robinson become the first black manager in the Major Leagues . He managed the Cleveland Indians . At the All-Star Break , there were discussions of Bowie Kuhn 's reappointment . Charlie Finley , New York owner George Steinbrenner and Baltimore owner Jerry Hoffberger were part of a group that wanted him gone . Finley was trying to convince the new owner of the Texas Rangers Brad Corbett that MLB needed a more dynamic commissioner . During the vote , Baltimore and New York decided to vote in favour of the commissioner 's reappointment . In addition , there were discussions of expansion for 1977 , with Seattle and Washington , D.C. as the proposed cities for expansion .
The 1979 Major League Baseball season . None of the post-season teams of 1977 or 1978 returned to this year 's postseason . In a re-match of the 1971 World Series , the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in the 1979 World Series .
Peter O'Malley ( born December 12 , 1937 in Brooklyn , New York ) is the former owner ( 1979-98 ) and president ( 1970-98 ) of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball .
Peter O'Malley ( born December 12 , 1937 in Brooklyn , New York ) is the former owner ( 1979-98 ) and president ( 1970-98 ) of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball .
The 1997 Major League Baseball season was the inaugural season for Interleague play , as well as the final season in the American League for the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to the NL the following season . The California Angels changed their name to the Anaheim Angels . The Florida Marlins ended the season ( their fifth season in the majors ) as the World Champions defeating the Cleveland Indians in a seven-game World Series , four games to three .
Fox Entertainment Group was an American entertainment company specialized in filmed entertainment owned by 21st Century Fox . Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney , the group 's assets were folded into various Disney units . The film studios 20th Century Fox , Fox Searchlight Pictures and Blue Sky Studios were transferred to Walt Disney Studios , whilst Fox Star Studios transferred to Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International . Its former owner , 21st Century Fox , was formerly known as News Corporation , which acquired all the stock of Fox Entertainment Group in 2005 . In 2013 , News Corporation was renamed 21st Century Fox and its publishing assets were spun off into the newly formed News Corp as part of a corporate re-organization . It was named after William Fox , born Vilmos Fried Fuchs , who created the original 20th Century Fox Film Corporation .
The 1998 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees sweeping the San Diego Padres in the World Series , after they had won a then AL record 114 regular season games . The Yankees finished with 125 wins for the season ( regular season and playoffs combined ) , which remains the MLB record . The 1998 season was also marked by an expansion to 30 teams ( 16 in the NL , 14 in the AL ) , with two new teams-the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League , and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the American League-added to the MLB ( as of 2019 , this is the last time MLB has expanded ) . To keep the leagues with even numbers of teams while allowing both leagues to have a new team , the Milwaukee Brewers were moved from the American League Central Division to the National League Central Division . The Detroit Tigers were shifted from the American League East to the American League Central , while the Devil Rays were added to the American League East . The Diamondbacks were added to the National League West , making the NL have more teams than the AL for the first time ( this arrangement would last until the end of the 2012 season , when the Houston Astros moved from the National to the American League for 2013 , giving each league 15 teams ) . The biggest story of the season was the historic chase of the single-season home run record held at the time by Roger Maris . Initially , the St. Louis Cardinals ' Mark McGwire and Ken Griffey , Jr. of the Seattle Mariners started the season on a pace to both break Maris ' record . In June , the chase was joined by the Chicago Cubs ' Sammy Sosa , who broke the decades-old record of Rudy York for most home runs in a calendar month with 20 that month . Eventually , Griffey fell off the record pace , but still ended with 56 homers . Both McGwire and Sosa broke the record in September , with McGwire ultimately finishing with 70 homers to Sosa 's 66 . McGwire 's record would last only three years , with Barry Bonds hitting 73 in 2001 .
The 1999 Major League Baseball season ended with the New York Yankees sweeping the Atlanta Braves in the World Series . The previous record of most home runs hit in a season , set at 5,064 in 1998 , was broken once again as the American League and National League combined to hit 5,528 home runs . Moreover , it was the first season in 49 years to feature a team that scored 1,000 runs in a season , as the Cleveland Indians led the Majors with 1,009 runs scored . Only 193 shutouts were recorded in 2,427 regular-season games . The 1999 season was the first season in which the two current New York City-area MLB teams , the Yankees and Mets , qualified for the playoffs together in the same season .
Robert Anthony Daly ( born December 8 , 1936 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American business executive who has led organizations such as CBS Entertainment , Warner Bros. , Warner Music Group , and the Los Angeles Dodgers . Daly currently serves as a non-executive advisor to Paramount Pictures , where he provides counsel on a number of strategic areas . Daly completed his term as chairman of the board of trustees for the children 's charity Save the Children in February 2010 . In addition , Daly serves as president of Rulemaker , Inc. , an investment consulting company . He is also chairman of DonorsChoose.org , a public schools assistance program . Daly also serves as chairman of the board for the American Film Institute . Additionally , he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , the UCLA School of Theater , Film and Televisions Deans Advisory Board and the UCLA Executive Board for the Medical Sciences . In 2006 , he joined the board of the USC Annenberg School for Communication .
The 2004 Major League Baseball season ended when the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in a four-game World Series sweep . This season was particularly notable since the Red Sox championship broke the 86-year-long popular myth known as the Curse of the Bambino . The Red Sox were also the first team in MLB history and the third team from a major North American professional sports league to ever come back from a 3-0 postseason series deficit , in the ALCS against the New York Yankees . The Montreal Expos would play their last season in Montreal , before re-locating to Washington DC , becoming the Washington Nationals in 2005 .
Frank H. McCourt Jr. ( born August 14 , 1953 ) is an American businessman , chairman of McCourt LP , chairman and CEO of McCourt Global , and current owner of the Los Angeles Marathon and football club Olympique de Marseille . He was the owner and chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium from 2004 to 2012 . 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 Dodgers and moving to Los Angeles , McCourt was a Boston real estate developer , whose family resided in Brookline , Massachusetts . In 2013 , he donated $ 100 million to establish the McCourt School of Public Policy , the ninth school of Georgetown University . On August 29 , 2016 , Margarita Louis-Dreyfus , the then owner of the French Ligue 1 club , Olympique de Marseille and the Marseille mayor , Jean-Claude Gaudin , stated during a press conference with McCourt that McCourt had agreed to purchase Olympique de Marseille . The deal was completed in Paris on October 17 , 2016 .
The 2012 Major League Baseball season began on March 28 with the first of a two-game series between the Seattle Mariners and the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome in Japan . On November 22 , 2011 , a new contract between Major League Baseball and its players union was ratified , and as a result , an expanded playoff format adding two clubs will be adopted no later than 2013 according to the new Collective Bargaining Agreement . The new format was finalized for the 2012 season on March 2 , 2012 , and will use the 2-3 game schedule format for the Division Series for the 2012 season only . The restriction against divisional rivals playing against each other in the Division Series round that had existed in previous years was eliminated , as the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees squared off in one of the best-of-5 LDS series in the American League . The stateside portion of the regular season started April 4 in Miami with the opening of the new Marlins Park , as the newly renamed Miami Marlins hosted the defending World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals . The regular season ended on Wednesday , October 3 . The entire master schedule was released on September 14 , 2011 . The Major League Baseball postseason was expanded to include a second wild card team in each league beginning in the 2012 season . The season marked the last for the Houston Astros as a member of the National League . Following the sale to new owner Jim Crane , the Astros agreed to move to the American League effective in the 2013 season , and would be assigned to the American League West , joining their in-state rivals , the Texas Rangers . The Major League Baseball All-Star Game 's 83rd edition was held on July 10 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City , Missouri , with the National League winning the All-Star Game for the third consecutive year in an 8-0 shutout of the American League . With the win , the National League champion earned home field advantage for the World Series , which began on October 24 and ended on October 28 when the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers .
This article is about the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team . For Guggenheim Partners , see Guggenheim Partners . Guggenheim Baseball Management is the ownership group that was formed to acquire the Los Angeles Dodgers professional baseball team in March 2012 for $ 2.15 billion in cash . The consortium consisted of Guggenheim controlling partner Mark Walter , and also includes as investors former Los Angeles Laker Earvin Magic Johnson , and movie producer Peter Guber , baseball team executive Stan Kasten , investor Bobby Patton , and former Guggenheim executive Todd Boehly . Billie Jean King and her partner Ilana Kloss joined the Los Angeles Dodgers ownership group in 2018 . Entrepreneurs Alan Smolinisky and Robert L. Plummer joined the ownership group in September 2019 . Guggenheim Partners LLC , the financial services firm , has no ownership stake in Guggenheim Baseball Management , but is often inaccurately mistaken with Guggenheim Baseball Management .
Mark Walter is an American businessman and the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners , a privately held global financial services firm with more than $ 290 billion in assets under management and headquarters in Chicago and New York . He is also the part-Chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball franchise .
Earvin Magic Johnson Jr. ( born August 14 , 1959 ) is an American retired professional basketball player and former president of basketball operations of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . He played point guard for the Lakers for 13 seasons . After winning championships in high school and college , Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers . He won a championship and an NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award in his rookie season , and won four more championships with the Lakers during the 1980s . Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV , but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game , winning the All-Star MVP Award . After protests from his fellow players , he retired again for four years , but returned in 1996 , at age 36 , to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time . Johnson 's career achievements include three NBA MVP Awards , nine NBA Finals appearances , twelve All-Star games , and ten All-NBA First and Second Team nominations . He led the league in regular-season assists four times , and is the NBA 's all-time leader in average assists per game , at 11.2 . Johnson was a member of the 1992 United States men 's Olympic basketball team ( The Dream Team ) , which won the Olympic gold medal in 1992 . After leaving the NBA in 1992 , Johnson formed the Magic Johnson All-Stars , a barnstorming team that traveled around the world playing exhibition games . Johnson was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996 . Johnson became a two-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame - being enshrined in 2002 for his individual career , and again in 2010 as a member of the Dream Team .
Stan Kasten ( born February 1 , 1952 , in Lakewood Township , New Jersey ) is the former president of the Atlanta Braves and the Washington Nationals , and the current president and part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers . Long involved in Atlanta professional sports , he also served as general manager of the NBA 's Atlanta Hawks and president of the NHL 's Atlanta Thrashers .
Howard Peter Guber ( born March 1 , 1942 ) is an American business executive , entrepreneur , educator , and author . He is Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment . Guber 's most recent films from Mandalay Entertainment include The Kids Are All Right , Soul Surfer and Bernie . He has also produced Rain Man , Batman , The Color Purple , Midnight Express , Gorillas in the Mist , The Witches of Eastwick , Missing , and Flashdance . Guber 's films have grossed over $ 3 billion worldwide and received 50 Academy Award nominations . Guber is also co-owner of four professional sports teams : the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association , the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball , the Major League Soccer team Los Angeles FC , and the professional eSports organization aXiomatic Gaming , that acquired a controlling interest in one of the world 's premier esports team franchises , Team Liquid . Guber is Chairman of Dick Clark Productions , which produces the American Music Awards , the Golden Globe Awards and other shows . He is also Chairman of the Strategic Board and an investor in NextVR and is Chairman of Mandalay Sports Media . He is co-executive chairman of aXiomatic , a broad-based esports and gaming company . He is a Regent of the University of California and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater , Film and Television and the UCLA Anderson School of Management and an entertainment and Mlmedia Alanalyst for Fox Business News . Guber 's most recent business book , Tell to Win - Connect , Persuade , and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story , became a # 1 New York Times bestseller . Guber is also noted for other books that include Inside The Deep and Shootout : Surviving Fame and ( Mis ) Fortune in Hollywood , which became a television series on AMC called Shootout .
Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory financial services firm that engages in investment banking , asset management , capital markets services , and insurance services . The firm is headquartered in New York City and Chicago with 2,400 staff located in 17 cities throughout the United States , Europe , and Asia . It has more than $ 275 billion of assets under management . The firm 's CEO is Mark Walter . It has six Managing Partners who are key executives , and with a Senior Leadership Team of 13 other executives , oversee the Firm 's businesses . The four original founders include Peter Lawson-Johnston II , Solomon R. Guggenheim 's great-grandson , J. Todd Morley , Mark R. Walter , and Dominic J. Curcio .
Todd Boehly is an American businessman , investor , and philanthropist . He is the Chairman , Chief Executive Officer and controlling member of Eldridge Industries , a private investment firm headquartered in Greenwich , Connecticut .
The 2018 Major League Baseball season began on March 29 . The regular season ended on October 1 , extended a day for tiebreaker games to decide the winners of the National League Central and National League West divisions . The postseason began on October 2 . The World Series began on October 23 , and ended on October 28 with the Boston Red Sox defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games to win their ninth World Series championship . The 89th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held on July 17 at Nationals Park , the home of the Washington Nationals . The American League won , 8-6 , in 10 innings . This was also the last season for the August trade waivers .
The Los Angeles Dodgers underwent a period of turmoil in management in 2011 and 2012 that began when Major League Baseball seized control of the team from owner Frank McCourt on April 20 , 2011 and ended when the team was sold to new owners on May 1 , 2012 . Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig announced that the takeover was due to concerns over the team 's finances , and a loss of confidence in the ability of owner Frank McCourt to run the team . Selig announced his intention to appoint an overseer to supervise the day-to-day financial management of the Dodgers . In June , as the Dodgers struggled to meet payroll , Selig rejected a TV contract that would have pumped money into the organization . This led to the Dodgers filing for bankruptcy , and being forced to negotiate a loan with the MLB to keep the club operating . After a year of negotiations and court proceedings , the dispute ended with the sale of the team to Guggenheim Baseball Management LLC .
Billie Jean King ( née Moffitt ; born November 22 , 1943 ) is an American former World No . 1 professional tennis player . King won 39 Grand Slam titles : 12 in singles , 16 in women 's doubles , and 11 in mixed doubles . She won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships . She often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup . She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups . For three years , she was the United States ' captain in the Federation Cup . King is an advocate for gender equality and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice . In 1973 , at age 29 , she won the Battle of the Sexes tennis match against the 55-year-old Bobby Riggs . She was also the founder of the Women 's Tennis Association and the Women 's Sports Foundation . She was also instrumental in persuading cigarette brand Virginia Slims to sponsor women 's tennis in the 1970s and went on to serve on the board of their parent company Philip Morris in the 2000s . Regarded by many in the sport as one of the greatest women 's tennis players of all time , King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987 .
Ilana Sheryl Kloss ( born 22 March 1956 ) is a former professional tennis player , tennis coach , and commissioner of World TeamTennis , since 2001 . She was the World 's No . 1 ranked doubles player in 1976 , World No . 19 in singles in 1979 .
The 2019 Major League Baseball season began on March 20 , while the regular season ended on September 29 . It was the 150th anniversary of professional baseball , dating back to the 1869 foundation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings . The postseason began on October 1 . The World Series began October 22 and ended October 30 with the Washington Nationals defeating the Houston Astros in seven games to win their first World Series championship . The entire schedule was released on August 22 , 2018 . The 90th Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held on July 9 at Progressive Field , home of the Cleveland Indians . The American League won , 4-3 , for its seventh straight victory . This was the final season when anyone on the 40-man expanded roster could be used in games from September 1 through the end of the regular season ( so-called September call-ups ) .
Alan Smolinisky is an American entrepreneur/investor and an owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball franchise . Smolinisky began his career in commercial real estate in the late 1990s while attending the University of Southern California . Smolinisky partnered with his then landlord Brian Chen after observing a large shortage of student housing around USC . Together , through their company Conquest Student Housing , they built and renovated many properties around Campus , eventually becoming the largest provider of private student housing at USC , and later at the University of California at Santa Barbara . Conquest became so dominant at USC that the University sued the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act for monopolizing the student housing market around USCs University Park Campus . The company was sold to a private equity firm and publicly traded REIT in summer 2008 for $ 205 million . After the sale , Smolinisky and Chen focused on public securities investments . Smolinisky and Chen are value investors , an investment paradigm that derives from the ideas on investment that Benjamin Graham and David Dodd began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 , focusing on acquiring assets at less than their intrinsic value . Today , that movement is most closely associated with Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren E. Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie T. Munger . Smolinisky and Chen manage their own personal capital ( approximately $ 1 billion in assets ) from Pacific Palisades , California . Investments include shopping centers in Los Angeles , 5,000 apartments across the U.S. , publicly traded securities holdings , and a capital equipment leasing business .