Baseball team shock
(N.Z.P.A.Reuter—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26
Americans were shocked to learn today that one of their best known baseball teams was up for possiblt sale to a Japanese group. Mr Horace Stoneham, the 72-year-old owner of the Sar Francisco Giants, denied re ports that he had already sold the team to Japanese industrialists for $l7 million, but he confirmed that he was negotiating the sale with a group of Japanese and others. The Giants have had the lowest attendance record of any major league baseball team during the last two years and have lost more than $3 million in the last three years.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33932, 27 August 1975, Page 15
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