CLEVELAND, Ohio– Cleveland Guardians’ owner Larry Dolan, who passed Sunday night at 94, was a truly good guardian of Cleveland professional baseball. And under his son Paul, current Guardians’ team President, the Dolan family has continued to be,
Native Clevelander Larry Dolan bought the team in 2000 from Richard Jacobs for $325 million. It is now estimated to be worth $1.35 billion.
Since 2013, the Guardians have the third winningest record in Major League Baseball, that includes winning the 2016 American League Pennant. In the past 10 years, only the Dodgers, Astros and Yankees have had better records.
Despite operating in what is considered a small financial MLB market, the Dolan-owned Guards have made the playoffs nine times; won seven Central Division Championships and played for the American League Championship three times.
DOLAN GROUP BID TO BUY THE BROWNS:
In 1998, a Dolan group of investors were outbid to buy the Cleveland Browns by Al Lerner.
The Dolan group included Larry’s two sons Paul and Matt, his brother Charles, Don Shula, who was a John Carrol University graduate and Bill Cosby.
DOLAN ONE OF ST IGNATIUS GREATEST RUNNING BACKS:
A former football teammate of Dolan’s at St. Ignatius high school recalled him being a “really good back,” one of the greatest in the school’s history. That teammate was my late father Jim, who himself was an All-Senate back at Ignatius earning a scholarship to the University of Dayton where he played with Chuck Noll from Benedictine and was at the Catholic University’s cafeteria table when a lineman nicknamed Noll “The Pope” because his football IQ and table talk had all the authority of the Pope.
Tip of the hat to Larry Dolan, the longest tenured Cleveland Indians/Guardians’ owner in team history.
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