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team's and owner
Indians General Manager John Hart and team owner Richard Jacobs managed to turn the team's fortunes around.
Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.
2009 marked a low point, with the team's attendance averaging around 50, 000, causing seven of the eight home games to be blacked out, and leading NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the issue with owner Wayne Weaver.
Manager Clark Griffith joined the team in 1912 and became the team's owner in 1920.
In spite of these issues, majority owner Leon Hess was interested in renewing the team's lease at Shea, which was due to expire in 1983.
The new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr., scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the team's image by unofficially changing its name to the " Bluejays ".
In the days before the game, most sports writers were speculating over whether, if the Raiders won, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner Al Davis.
Part of the team's spotty performance might have been that the new coach and the new owner did not really get along well, and Belichick came to serve during the 1996 season as the head coach's interface with the Kraft family and the non-football operations side of the business.
In 2000, he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and following the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout he became the team's head coach.
Sagal, team owner and president, began a mental decline in 1962, and the team's other stockholders found it difficult to make decisions without their boss.
Then in the offseason, Redskins majority owner Jack Kent Cooke moved from Los Angeles to Virginia and took over the team's day-by-day operations from Edward Bennett Williams.
The South Bay city of San Jose has shown continuing, strong interest to be the team's new home, and is the preferred destination for current team owner Lew Wolff.
Jackson and Steinbrenner would reconcile, and Steinbrenner would hire him as a " special assistant to the principal owner ", making Jackson a consultant and a liaison to the team's players, particularly the minority players.
Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.
The team's popularity had begun to sag due to fan discontent with owner George Shinn's personnel moves ; he had reportedly traded Mourning and several other stars out of an unwillingness to pay them market value.
In 1974, Zollner sold the team to Bill Davidson, who remained the team's principal owner until his death on March 14, 2009.
The team's majority owner is Michael Heisley, who controls a 95 % share of the franchise ; the remaining 5 % is controlled by several local owners, including AutoZone founder J. R. (" Pitt ") Hyde, his wife Barbara Hyde, equity manager Staley Cates, and former NBA player and University of Memphis point guard Elliot Perry.
Cooke was a more hands-on owner than Short, and overhauled the team's operations.
One of the team's limited partners was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who lived in Tampa during the year.
The team's first owner was coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin, who outbid grain magnate James E. Norris for the franchise.
The team's performance would improve in 1978, when new owner Peter Pocklington acquired Wayne Gretzky as an under-age player ( consequentially, his first year of WHA experience prevented him from being an official 1979 – 80 NHL rookie ), as well as goaltender Eddie Mio and forward Peter Driscoll, from the recently-folded Indianapolis Racers for cash.
McFarlane, who is a former minority owner of the Edmonton Oilers, designed the logo used on the team's alternate third jersey, which debuted in 2001.
Branson and Tony Fernandes, owner of Air Asia and Lotus F1 Racing, had a bet for the 2010 F1 season where the team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess.
The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.

team's and manager
Following the 2004 season, the Diamondbacks hired Wally Backman to be the team's manager.
One month prior to the end of the 1961 season, Richards resigned as the team's skipper to become the general manager of the expansion Houston Colt 45s.
The layout of the players on the pitch is called the team's formation, and defining the team's formation and tactics is usually the prerogative of the team's manager ( s ).
Early in 1945, McBride named 36-year-old Ohio State Buckeyes coach Paul Brown as the team's head coach and general manager and gave him a share in its profits.
Negotiations with players were handled by John Brickels, the team's acting manager, as Brown was still in the Navy.
Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.
Lajoie was named manager in, and the team's fortunes improved somewhat.
Manny Acta was hired as the team's 40th manager on October 25, 2009.
The team's struggles led to the firing of manager Don Baylor, the only manager in franchise history, following the season.
On June 1, 2006, USA Today reported that Rockies management, including manager Clint Hurdle, had instituted an explicitly Christian code of conduct for the team's players, banning men's magazines ( such as Maxim and Playboy ) and sexually explicit music from the team's clubhouse.
Many fans and media were beginning to blame Jerry Jones for the team's ills, noting that he refused to hire a strong coach or general manager, preferring to hire coaches who did not want to be involved with personnel duties so that Jones himself, as GM, could manage them.
Mickey Owen, the team's manager, helped Aaron with his batting stance.
The Royals began the 2010 season with a rocky start, and after the team's record fell to 12 – 23, manager Trey Hillman was fired.
Because of the team's slugging ability and the nickname of their manager Bamberger, the Brewers were nicknamed " Bambi's Bombers.
After La Russa retired as manager of the Cardinals in 2011, Smith became active in the organization again, starting with his stint as a special instructor for the team's 2012 spring training camp.
A non-star quarterback on a winning team may be called a " game manager " if he avoids making mistakes that prevent his team's defense and rushing offenses from succeeding.
" Sukeforth noticed that Clemente was being used as a bench player for the team and discussed the possibility of drafting Clemente to the Pirates with the team's manager, Max Macon.
It is said that after one particularly satisfying victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, Mutrie ( who was also the team's manager ) stormed into the dressing room and exclaimed, " My big fellows!
He is the only manager in the team's history without a losing season.
Williams ' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86 – 76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.

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