sportsprodailydeal.com - 7/7/2009
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Widespread reports claim that the Ricketts family has reached a deal to buy the Chicago Cubs baseball team from bankrupt media company Tribune Co.
Ricketts, Tribune reach deal for Cubs: source
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reuters.com 7/6/2009 — Ben Klayman CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Ricketts family has reached a deal to buy the storied Chicago Cubs baseball team from bankrupt media company Tribune Co for slightly less than the original $900 million bid, a source familiar with the deal said on ...
Ricketts family to buy Chicago Cubs
allcurrenthotnews.com 8/22/2009 — Ricketts family to buy Cubs for $845 million CHICAGO – A billionaire brokerage family will attempt what a newspaper publisher and a chewing-gum dynasty failed to do: Break baseball's longest World Series drought.
Ricketts family steps up to plate on bid to buy Cubs
chicagotribune.com 6/27/2009 — Negotiations between family, Tribune Co. are gaining steam, sources say
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The Ricketts family's bid to buy the Chicago Cubs from Tribune Co. is gaining momentum, a week after the ...
Report: Tribune, Ricketts family reach deal | cubs.com: News
chicago.cubs.mlb.com 7/6/2009 — By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com 07/06/09 7:14 PM ET CHICAGO -- The Tribune Co. has reportedly reached a deal to sell the Cubs and Wrigley Field to Tom Ricketts, but the negotiations have not been completed, team officials said. "I'm glad to see things are ...
Ricketts Gets the Cubs
baseballmusings.com 7/6/2009 — The Chicago Tribune reports that they’ve reached a deal to sell the Cubs and Wrigley Field :
Tribune Co. has reached a deal to sell the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the Ricketts family, a source familiar with the matter said this morning.
The two sides reached a sale agreement ...
What You Can Expect From Tom Ricketts and Family
chicagonow.com 7/6/2009 — After breaking the story on the sale of the Cubs finally being close to completion to the Ricketts family I have been inundated with e-mails asking what type of owner Tom Ricketts will be. After talking with several people who...
UPDATE 4-Ricketts, Tribune reach deal for Cubs -source
reuters.com 7/6/2009 — * Ricketts, Tribune finalize terms for Cubs sale * Terms for slightly less than original $900 mln offer * Deal still needs baseball, bankruptcy court approvals (Adds Ricketts family spokesman declining comment in paragraph 3) By Ben Klayman CHICAGO, ...
Chicago Cubs sold to Ricketts family by Tribune
sportspromedia.com 8/24/2009 — The Ricketts family have finally agreed terms to buy the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball franchise from the Tribune Company, which has owned the team for nearly 30 years.
Someone Else Actually Wants To Buy The Cubs? [Chicago Cubs]
deadspin.com 7/7/2009 — Hold the phone, North Siders. Wrigley Field and its tenants have supposedly been sold for $900 million , but a new suitor has stepped in to Cubsblock the Ricketts. Will the team slip through their fingers like a groundball to short? Because the ...
Working the Scoreboard at Wrigley —
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One of the eternal mysteries of Wrigley, right up there with how they get the grass so green in April, is what it’s like inside the scoreboard. Fred Washington, who’s been flippin’ numbers at Wrigley since 1990, talked to Wise ...
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