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Diamond Baseball Holdings (DBH) is an American sports ownership and management group that operates over 40 Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams in the United States and Canada. DBH was established in 2021 by media conglomerate Endeavor and is a subsidiary of the investment firm Silver Lake .
The Illinois State League (ISL) was a baseball minor league formed in 1947. The Illinois State League operated in 1947–1948 and evolved to become today's Midwest League. The Class D league was composed entirely of new franchises, each located in Southern Illinois. The charter franchises were in the Illinois cities of Belleville, Centralia ...
Drillers Stadium was a former [1] minor league baseball stadium located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From 1981 to 2009, Drillers Stadium was home to the Tulsa Drillers , of the Double-A Texas League . For a number of years Drillers Stadium also hosted one of the regular season baseball games played between Oklahoma State University and the University of ...
A. Ray Smith (May 1, 1915 – June 28, 1999, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) was a long-time baseball executive, best known for his ownership of the minor-league Tulsa Oilers franchise, which he later moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where the team set minor league attendance records.
Principal owner: John W. Henry Net worth: $2.6 billion (2020) Purchase price: $380 million (2002) Current franchise valuation: $3.4 billion Value appreciation: 796% Annualized appreciation: 11.6% ...
The Drillers came into being in 1977, when the two-year-old Lafayette Drillers were moved to Tulsa from Louisiana. Before that time, the Triple-A Tulsa Oilers had been the city's minor league club, but owner A. Ray Smith moved that team to New Orleans due to concerns over the dilapidated condition of Oiler Park. The new team opted to keep the ...
Missouri State League: Missouri: Independent (1896) Class D (1911) 1896, 1911 Missouri Valley League: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma: Independent (1901) Class D (1902–1903) Class C (1904–1905) 1901–1905 Monongahela League Pennsylvania: Independent: 1894 Montana State League: Idaho, Montana, Utah: Independent: 1892, 1900, 1909 ...
a The Atlanta Braves sale in 2007 to Liberty Media was part of a complex swap of cash, stock, magazine holdings, and the Braves, in which Time Warner sent the Braves, a hobbyist publishing company, and $980,000,000 to Liberty in exchange for approximately 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock, at the time worth $1.48 billion.