Julio Franco

The New York Mets have been in Major League Baseball for 50 years. When they were founded, the city of New York had just one team, the New York Yankees. The Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants both migrated west for nicer weather and a fresh fanbase in 1957.The New York area desperately missed National League baseball. Enter William A. Shea, a prominent lawyer and founder of the Continental League.This was a third professional baseball...  

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, who is trying to buy the bankrupt Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, is considering taking a small stake in another team -- his hometown New York Mets, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.  

Steven Cohen may yet own the Los Angeles Dodgers. But he still hasn’t given up hope of buying a chunk of his favorite baseball team. The SAC Capital Advisors founder is expected to buy one of the 4% stakes in the New York Mets currently on offer. The Mets plan to sell 10 such stakes—although…  

The billionaire investor, in the running for purchase of the Dodgers, is on the verge of buying a share of the Mets. If he were to buy the Dodgers, he would have sell any interest in the Mets.Steven Cohen, the billionaire investor trying to buy the Dodgers, is on the verge of becoming a minority owner in his hometown New York Mets.  

Billionaire investor Steve Cohen, who is amongst the bidders in the pending sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is nearing a deal to buy a minority stake in the New York Mets, according to a report in the LA Times. Cohen is expected to purchase one ...