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Laura Ricketts Is First Openly Gay MLB Owner
huffingtonpost.com - 20 days ago
Laura Ricketts Is First Openly Gay MLB Owner
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The Chicago Cubs have reached a baseball milestone and it has nothing to do with their century-plus World Series drought. With the team's purchase by the Ricketts Family, the Cubs are the first Major League Baseball team to have an openly gay owner. Among the new owners is Laura Ricketts, an out ...
windycitymediagroup.com - 21 days ago
SPORTS: Lesbian makes history as Cubs owner
— windycitymediagroup.com — In a major development, the Chicago Cubs have become the first major-league sports franchise to have an openly gay owner. On Oct. 30, the Ricketts family were announced as the new owners of the Cubs, buying the team, Wrigley Field and a share in ... (more) SPORTS: Lesbian makes history as Cubs owner

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Cubs Group Has First Prominent Gay Owner; Still, Not Entirely Pro-Gay
sportingnews.com - 19 days ago
Cubs Group Has First Prominent Gay Owner; Still, Not Entirely Pro-Gay
— sportingnews.com — America is learning so much about gay people this week. There was this Census release detailing how gay couples are remarkably similar to straight couples in terms of age and income, and that a third of gay couples are raising children. Also, and ... (more) Cubs Group Has First Prominent Gay Owner; Still, Not ...

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npr.org - 23 days ago
Cubs' New Owner: 'There Is No Curse'
— npr.org — Curse? What curse? Tom Ricketts, who's taking over as chairman of baseball's Chicago Cubs now that his family has completed its $845 million purchase of the franchise, isn't one to subscribe to the many, many reasons that many, many Cubs fans think ... (more) Cubs' New Owner: 'There Is No Curse'

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Some baseball links, since I can't seem to find anything to write about
Church of Baseball — The Chub$ get the first openly gay MLB owner. Ok, that's the only link. But I thought it was important enough to share. ...

Tuesday's Frosty Mug
Brew Crew Ball — ... I haven't spent much time discussing the Cubs' sale because it moves at an excruciatingly slow pace and is covered well enough elsewhere, but I thought this milestone was worth noting: With the sale finalized, investor Laura Ricketts is Major League Baseball's first openly gay owner. ...

Chicago Cubs Owner Loves Mound Visits
The Slanch Report — ... took me a while to come out to myself and not long after that I came out to them. I think that it really couldn’t of been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive. … I have been really really fortunate in that regard.” I can only hope that this first step inspires or encourages the first active openly out player; it’s embarrassing how homosexuality is treated within sports and it is shameful and it’s time to change. [Huffington Post] Posted in Awesome, Baseball Tagged: Chicago Cubs, First Gay ...

The Chicago Cubs just got a little more fabulous
Stupid Sports Blog — ... This is a story about Laura Ricketts, a new part-owner of the Chicago Cubs who happens to be openly gay. What's amazing about this is she's the first owner in MLB history who happens to be openly gay. ...

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TheScore.com Blog — ... “The Chicago Cubs have reached a baseball milestone and it has nothing to do with their century-plus World Series drought. With the team's purchase by the Ricketts Family, the Cubs are the first Major League Baseball team to have an openly gay owner,” explains the Huffington Post. “Among the new owners is Laura Ricketts, an out lesbian who is also on the board of the gay rights organization Lambda Legal, the Windy City Times reports.” ...

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Laura Ricketts Gives the Cubs the First Major-League Sports Franchise to Have an Openly Gay Owner — The Big Lead
The Cubs Gay Owner: The Ricketts family officially purchased the Cubs on October 30 , and the board of directors will be made up of family members Laura, Pete, Todd and Tom (Chairman). Laura is openly gay, and supposedly is the “first major-league sports franchise to have an openly gay ...