He may end up in the history books as one of the worst owners in Major League Baseball: Jeffrey Loria, soon, former owner of the Miami Marlins. An owner that hijacked and blackmailed a city into paying 80% of the costs of a ballpark. A former owner who hijacked a Canadian team and was responsible…
After the original American Association, which was considered a Major League, folded in 1891, it lasted until 1902 before a new league with the same name was founded. Only this time it would be a minor league. The league started as an outlaw circuit with teams from the Midwest. The charter members were the Kansas…
I have written this article for the Cuban Baseball Magazine Universo Beisbol, which you can find at my favorite links bottom left of this blog. In this piece, I’d like to point out why I think Jeffrey Loria is a pest for the game of baseball. I keep him responsible for the demise of the…
