In late April, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees owner Dan Topping agreed to swap the players, but a day later canceled the deal when Yawkey requested that Yogi Berra come with DiMaggio.

When Brooklyn Tigers owner Dan Topping announced his intentions to join the All-America Football Conference in 1946, his NFL franchise was revoked and all of its players were assigned to the Yanks.

The following season Dan Topping bought Chris Cagle's half of the team.

After Brooklyn owner Dan Topping withdrew his team from the league to join the new All-America Football Conference, the remaining owners agreed not to renew Layden's contract, feeling that he was too much of a gentleman and not forceful enough.

The Yankees owners at the time, Del Webb and Dan Topping felt that his playing style and personality wasn't suited for the conservative style that they wanted a " black " player to represent as a member of the club.

* Bob Gunton as Dan Topping

In October 1947, just after the 1947 World Series championship, Weiss was promoted to general manager of the Yankees, after the team's newly reconstituted ownership tandem of Dan Topping and Del Webb bought out original partner Larry MacPhail, who had also been general manager.

The estate sold the team to a group of Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, and Del Webb in 1945, and Barrow sold his 10 % stake in the team to the group.

Harridge faced some criticism for his involvement in allowing Arnold Johnson, a business associate of New York Yankees owners Dan Topping and Del Webb, to purchase the Philadelphia Athletics and move them to Kansas City rather than allow local owners to purchase the team and keep it in Philadelphia.

* 61 * – Dan Topping ( 2001 )

* 61 * – Yankees Owner / President Dan Topping ( 2001 )

His slugging prompted Dan Topping, new owner of the New York Yankees and a fellow serviceman at Pearl to offer him $ 25, 000 to sign with the Yanks.

They were owned by Dan Topping, who brought many of his Brooklyn football players from the National Football League to the AAFC.

He rejoined the former owner of the Dodgers, Dan Topping, in 1946 as part of the New York Yankees of the new All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ).

Additional Hall of Famers from Pittsburgh included owner Art Rooney, Sr., and son Dan Rooney.

Other controversial issues involving Snyder were the 2009 banning of signs at Fedex Field because of their negative nature toward the owner, and 2009 lawsuits in which team owner Dan Snyder sued unemployed season ticket holders who backed out of contracts because they could not afford them.

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

The farm has been passed down the generations from the original owner Dan ( now deceased ) to his son Phil ( until his death on 13 February 2010 the oldest surviving cast member ), and is now co-owned by three of Phil's four children: David ( who manages it with his wife Ruth ), Elizabeth and Kenton.

During his infamous Decision, broadcast on ESPN, James announced he would take his " talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat ," which triggered a volatile fusillade of anger, primarily from Cleveland fans ; Cavaliers ' owner Dan Gilbert released an over-the-top letter that reeked of bitterness, as he claimed that Cleveland would win a championship before James would.

Under new owner Dan Gilbert, the team hired a new head coach, Mike Brown, and a new general manager, former Cavaliers forward Danny Ferry.

Shortly after James made his announcement, Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavaliers, announced in an open letter on the Cavaliers website that James ' decision was a " cowardly betrayal " and promised a NBA championship for the Cleveland Cavaliers before LeBron James wins one, although James would win a championship before the Cavs with the Heat's championship win in 2012.

* Dan Gilbert, chairman and founder of Quicken Loans, and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers

He was named for his owner, Daniel ( Dan ) Messner, and his sire, Joe Patchen.

The City of Savage, Minnesota, was renamed for Dan Patch's owner, Marion Willis Savage, in 1904.

Foyt wanted the use of the car for the entire month, but Lotus team owner Colin Chapman was reluctant to give up the reserve car in case something happened to team drivers Jim Clark and Dan Gurney, so discussions ended and Foyt stayed with his reliable, well-sorted Offenhauser-engined roadster.

Despite the long-time backing of Bears founder George Halas, Steelers founder Art Rooney and, more recently, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL ’ s other owners, led, not surprisingly, by the Cardinals, still continue to vote it down ( 30-2 ).

Famous MSU alumni include former Michigan governors James Blanchard and John Engler, U. S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Tim Johnson, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil Donna Hrinak, former Jordan Prime Minister Adnan Badran, billionaire philanthropists Tom Gores and Eli Broad, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court Wallace B. Jefferson, trial lawyer Geoffrey Feiger, former Food and Drug Administration official Peter Rheinstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, Teamsters president James P. Hoffa, Quicken Loans founder and Cleveland Cavaliers owner and billionaire Dan Gilbert, Sergeant at Arms of the U. S. House of Representatives Wilson Livingood, former Michigan U. S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, former Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Harry Moniba, and former U. S. Ambassador to Italy Peter Secchia.

Blackhawks owner Dan Van Voorhis later pulled his team out of the WSL's successor league, the American Professional Soccer League, after which it played as the San Jose Hawks in the USISL in 1993.

Veteran Irish actor Dan O ' Herlihy was cast as Conal Cochran, the owner of Silver Shamrock and the witch from the film's title ( a 3000-year-old demon in Kneale's original script ).

With multiple teams having trouble making offseason payments, the league was under threat of folding until Dan Borislow, owner of the phone service magicJack, came in to buy the Freedom.

On November 24, Dan Wood, Karelia owner and Watson lead developer, made the last version of Watson available free of charge by posting a registration code on his weblog.

A dispute ensued between KSEV radio show host / owner Dan Patrick and an assistant managing editor at the Chronicle.

The building's famous " Sgt Dan " remains because rights to it have been purchased by the buildings current owner " Sgt Dan Stockfoods Ltd ".

) Kelly became the USFL's answer to the NFL's Dan Marino, and the league's second superstar player ( after Herschel Walker ).

Robert ( Bob ) M. Frankston ( born June 14, 1949 in Brooklyn New York ) is the co-creator with Dan Bricklin of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program and the co-founder of Software Arts, the company that developed it.

Although some of these songs (" Caves of Altamira ", " Brooklyn ", " Barrytown ") were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums, the majority of them were never officially released.

In one of the most one-sided trades in baseball history, Hanlon obtained Dan Brouthers and Keeler from Brooklyn.

* Dan Melchior wrote a song called " Williamsburg, Brooklyn ", featured in his album " Thankyou very much ", issued in 2009.

With the ownership consolidation, Orioles player-manager Ned Hanlon, who received an ownership stake in the clubs, moved from Baltimore to Brooklyn and assigned many of his best players to Brooklyn, including Joe Kelley, Dan McGann, Hughie Jennings and Willie Keeler.

Hersh discussing her memoir Rat Girl with Dan Charnas at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival.

He first appeared as Brooklyn ( due to him being born in New York ) in Detective Comics # 64 ( June 1942 ), and first appeared as Dan Turpin in New Gods # 5 ( November 1971 ).

Due to a recent retcon, Dan Turpin was made the adult version of Jack Kirby's Golden Age " kid-gang " character Brooklyn, of the Boy Commandos.

* Brooklyn Rail, " Unlikely Friends: James Brooks & Dan Flavin.

In New York City's Spanish Harlem, police detectives Dan Madigan and Rocco Bonaro break into a sleazy apartment and arrest Barney Benesch, a hoodlum wanted for questioning by a Brooklyn precinct.

It was revealed years later that Brooklyn was Dan Turpin, that André Chavard had become the head of the French Intelligence Département Gamma, and that Alfie Twidgett was now the head of the firm Statistical Occurrences Ltd. ( SOL ), with his daughter Twiggie.

In addition to the aligning of Metropolis Special Crimes Unit's Detective Dan Turpin with " Brooklyn ", the team have seen print in a couple of titles since the late 1940s.

Fancy Dan makes a cameo appearance in an issue of The Amazing Spider-Girl as the owner of a company called Brito Imports and the leader of the Brooklyn gangs.