1. Charles Abraham Stoneham was the owner of the New York Giants baseball team and New York Nationals soccer team.
24 Facts About Charles Stoneham
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Charles Stoneham was at the center of numerous corruption scandals and was the instigator of the "Soccer Wars" which destroyed the American Soccer League.
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Charles Stoneham quickly rose through the ranks, becoming a stock salesman in the company.
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In 1921, Charles Stoneham dissolved his brokerage house, convincing his investors to transfer their accounts to various other New York brokerage firms.
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Allegations arose that Charles Stoneham was a silent partner in the firm and had provided false testimony in the investigation of the collapse.
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Charles Stoneham was indicted on August 31,1923, by a Federal grand jury for perjury.
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Charles Stoneham was acquitted of these charges on February 6,1925.
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Charles Stoneham had a close business relationship with Arnold Rothstein, a notorious organized crime boss who ran numerous gambling operations.
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Charles Stoneham co-owned a billiard parlour with Stoneham's right-hand man, Giants manager John McGraw.
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Charles Stoneham himself was an inveterate gambler and the owner of numerous gambling operations, including the Oriental Park Racetrack, and Havana Casino in Havana, Cuba.
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Charles Stoneham was eventually forced to sell these operations in 1923, as part of an anti-corruption campaign waged by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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In 1919, Charles Stoneham purchased the New York Giants baseball team for one million dollars.
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Charles Stoneham took on longtime manager John McGraw and New York municipal judge Francis Xavier McQuade as partners, with McGraw becoming vice president and McQuade becoming treasurer.
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Charles Stoneham owned the team until his death in 1936, passing it to his son Horace Stoneham.
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Charles Stoneham was involved in the aborted move of the New York Yankees to Boston in 1920.
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The move backfired when Ruppert and Huston announced that if Charles Stoneham evicted the Yankees from the Polo Grounds, the Yankees would move to Boston's Fenway Park as tenants of the Red Sox.
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Charles Stoneham realized that if the Yankees left town, he'd lose revenue from a valuable tenant.
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Charles Stoneham didn't want to be held responsible for forcing Ruth, the biggest star in the game, out of town.
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In 1919, Charles Stoneham made an aborted attempt to organize a professional football team to play at the Polo Grounds in New York City.
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On September 8,1927, Charles Stoneham purchased the Indiana Flooring franchise.
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Charles Stoneham withdrew his team from the ASL in 1932 and disbanded it.
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Charles Stoneham was a member of the Tammany Hall political machine.
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For several years before his death, Charles Stoneham had been suffering from a variety of physical ailments which were eventually diagnosed as symptoms of Bright's disease.
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Charles Stoneham died in a hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on January 6,1936, after spending several days in a coma.