Del Webb and Dan Topping co-owned which baseball club?
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Dan Topping Daniel Reid Topping (June 11, 1912 – May 18, 1974) was a part owner and president of the New York Yankees baseball team from 1945 to 1964. Daniel Reid Topping was the son of Rhea Reid and Henry J. Topping. Rhea Reid, the daughter of Daniel G. Reid, known as the "Tinplate King" for his vast wealth in the tin industry, was the mother of three sons, Daniel Reid Topping, Henry J. Topping (1914), and John Reid Topping (1921). Daniel Topping, along with Del Webb and Larry MacPhail, purchased the Yankees for $2.8 million from the estate of the late Jacob Ruppert on January 25, 1945. MacPhail sold his share of the team to Topping and Webb in 1947, and the two sold controlling interest in the team to CBS in 1964, after which Topping remained as team president until 1966, when he sold his remaining stake in the Yankees.
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Del Webb Delbert Eugene "Del" Webb (May 17, 1899 – July 4, 1974) was an American real estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club. He is known for founding and developing the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and for many works of his firm, Del E. Webb Construction Company.
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Don Kessinger Donald Eulon Kessinger (born July 17, 1942 in Forrest City, Arkansas) is an American former professional baseball player and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1964 to 1979 for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago White Sox. A six-time All-Star, he was a light-hitting, defensive specialist who spent the majority of his career as the Chicago Cubs starting shortstop. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was considered one of the best shortstops in baseball.
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Skeeter Webb James Laverne "Skeeter" Webb (November 4, 1909 – July 8, 1986) was an American professional baseball player from 1932 to 1949. He played 12 seasons as an infielder in Major League Baseball with the St. Louis Cardinals (1932), Cleveland Indians (1938–1939), Chicago White Sox (1940–1944), Detroit Tigers (1945–1947), and Philadelphia Athletics (1948).
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Danbury Westerners The Danbury Westerners are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Danbury, Connecticut. The team, a member of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, plays their home games at Rogers Park. The team played its inaugural season in 1995. The Danbury Westerners are the oldest active team in the NECBL.
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San Rafael Pacifics The San Rafael Pacifics are a professional baseball team based in San Rafael, California, United States and are a charter franchise of the four-team Pacific Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, an independent professional baseball circuit not affiliated with Major League Baseball.
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Jim Lemon James Robert Lemon (March 23, 1928 – May 14, 2006) was an American right and left fielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. A powerful, right-handed hitting and throwing outfielder, Lemon teamed with first baseman Roy Sievers (and later with slugger Harmon Killebrew and outfielder Bob Allison) to form the most formidable home run-hitting tandem in the 60-year history of the first Washington Senators franchise.
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Boise Pilots The Boise Pilots were a minor league baseball team in the western United States, based in Boise, Idaho. They played in the Pioneer League for a total of 11 seasons between 1939 and 1954. They were unaffiliated with any major league team, and played at the Class C level. Their home venue was originally named Airway Park in 1939, and in 1952 was renamed Joe Devine Airway Park.
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Danville 97s The Danville 97s were a minor league baseball team based in Danville, Virginia for the 1998 season only. They were a baseball team that played in the Carolina League and were affiliated with the Atlanta Braves for their lone 1998 season. Prior to the 97s, the Durham Bulls were the Braves High-A affiliate from 1980–1997 which that team also played in the Carolina League. The 97s played home games at the American Legion Field. Following the 1998 season, the franchise relocated to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to become the Myrtle Beach Pelicans.
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Reunion Sports Group Reunion Sports Group was an investor group which owned the former United League Baseball, an independent baseball league started in 2005. Owned by league co-founders John Bryant and Byron Pierce, who had left the original ownership group a few years back and then purchased the league out of bankruptcy in 2009, Reunion owned all of the franchises of United League Baseball, including the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, Amarillo Dillas, San Angelo Colts, Laredo Broncos, Edinburg Roadrunners, and Coastal Bend Thunder. The group was also part of a partnership to build a proposed 10,000 seat baseball stadium to house an expansion team to begin play in 2010 in Dallas, Texas but this proposal never came to fruition.
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Worcester Worcesters The Worcester Worcesters were a 19th-century Major League Baseball team from 1880 to 1882 in the National League. The team is referred to, at times, as the Brown Stockings or the Ruby Legs; however, no contemporary sources from the time exist that support the use of either name. The Ruby Legs played their home games at the Worcester Driving Park Grounds in the Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds, located south of Highland Street between Sever Street and Russell Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Tyler Webb Jon Tyler Webb (born July 20, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2017 for the New York Yankees. Webb played college baseball for the University of South Carolina.
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Ron Davis (outfielder) Ronald Everette Davis (October 21, 1941 – September 5, 1992) was a right-handed Major League Baseball outfielder who played in 1962 and from 1966 to 1969 for the Houston Colt .45s/Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates.
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1899 Louisville Colonels season The 1899 Louisville Colonels baseball team finished with a 75–77 record and ninth place in the National League. Following the season, owner Barney Dreyfuss bought the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and folded his Louisville team. Manager Fred Clarke and most of the players moved over to the Pirates where they enjoyed much more success in the coming years. The Colonels, a perennial also-ran through their National League run from 1892 to 1899, appeared to be on the cusp of becoming a strong team when the National League contracted from 12 teams to 8 after the end of the 1899 season. Louisville started the season with a 15–37 record after 52 games, but then went 60–40 in their last 100 in the first glimpse of what was to become a strong Pirates team in the years to come. Many star players, including several Hall of Famers, of the first decade of the 20th Century came from the 1899 Louisville squad including Clarke, Honus Wagner, Rube Waddell, Deacon Phillippe, Tommy Leach and Claude Ritchey.
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Meridian Metropolitans The Meridian Metropolitans were a Cotton States League baseball team based in Meridian, Mississippi, United States that played from 1912 to 1913. Orth Collins and Danny Clark played for them.
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Waverley Baseball Club The Waverley Wildcats Baseball Club is a Baseball Club based in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley, The club was the original majority owners of the Waverley Reds professional Baseball team in the Australian Baseball League.
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Todd Helton Todd Lynn Helton (born August 20, 1973) is a former American professional baseball first baseman who played his entire 17-year career for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). A five-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger, and three-time Gold Glove Award winner, Helton holds the Colorado Rockies club records for hits (2,519), home runs (369), doubles (592), walks (1,335), runs scored (1,401), runs batted in (RBI, with 1,406), games played (2,247), and total bases (4,292), among others.
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Dan Boone (baseball) James Albert "Dan" Boone (January 19, 1895 – June 11, 1968) was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from 1919 through 1923. Boone batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Samantha, Alabama. His younger brother, Ike, also played in the major leagues from 1922–32.
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Don Ferrarese Donald Hugh "Midget" Ferrarese (born June 19, 1929 in Oakland, California) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1955 to 1962 with the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals. A left-handed thrower, he batted right-handed. An attendant of St. Mary's College of California, he was fairly small at 5 ft , 170 lb . He apparently got his nickname from his small size.
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Paducah Chiefs The Paducah Chiefs are a minor league baseball team in Paducah, Kentucky and the primary nickname for various Paducah teams, who began play in 1897.
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Del Unser Delbert Bernard Unser (born December 9, 1944) is a retired Major League Baseball center fielder and utility player who had a 15-year career from 1968 to 1982.
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Del Webb Explosion Del Webb Explosion was a seven-piece band cast in the mold of British soul revivalists Dexy's Midnight Runners. (They) were active in Adelaide for only 20 months from 1981-1983 with their first gig at the Union Hotel on the 7 December 1981. A brass based pop band with strong British soul influences, The band was founded in Adelaide, South Australia, by Peter Flierl who had just returned from a trip to the UK with an incredibly strong impression having been left by the sounds of Dexys Midnight Runners and the very recently formed splinter group from that ensemble, The Bureau. The band’s name was provided by early Del Webb guitarist, Gerry Barrett, and was named after American construction magnate and real estate developer, Delbert Eugene Webb. The ‘Explosion’ just seemed to follow.