Jeffrey Loria attended New York City's Stuyvesant High School and Yale University, where he initially took pre-med courses.
19 Facts About Jeffrey Loria
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Jeffrey Loria specializes in 20th-century masters, and his collection includes works by Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.
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In 1989, Jeffrey Loria purchased the Oklahoma City 89ers, then a Triple-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers.
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Jeffrey Loria sold the team in 1993 and began looking to buy a Major League team.
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Jeffrey Loria lost out to Peter Angelos in his bid to purchase the Baltimore Orioles in 1994.
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Jeffrey Loria headed an ownership group that included the city of Montreal, several Montreal businesses, and Stephen Bronfman, Charles' son.
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Jeffrey Loria sought more public funding for a planned downtown ballpark, Labatt Park.
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In 2002, as part of an orchestrated move with Bud Selig and then-Marlins owner John W Henry, Loria sold the Expos to a partnership of the other 29 major league clubs for $120million.
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Jeffrey Loria moved the Expos' entire front office staff, on-field staff, office equipment and computer equipment to Florida.
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Many speculate that Jeffrey Loria never intended to keep the team in Montreal.
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The feelings among some Canadian baseball fans are so strong that, in 2011, when Jeffrey Loria chose Remembrance Day to announce his team's new name and stadium, Richard Griffin, a well-known Canadian baseball columnist wrote:.
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Shortly after selling the Expos, Jeffrey Loria officially became owner of the Marlins on February 12,2002.
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Jeffrey Loria won his first World Series as an owner in his second full season in Florida, as the Marlins beat the Yankees four games to two in the 2003 World Series.
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Jeffrey Loria claimed that despite the Marlins' hefty payroll in 2012, the fans did not sell out the facility as imagined and that the organization was not winning and needed to "take a new course" in order to do so.
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In July 2013, hitting coach Tino Martinez, who had been handpicked by Jeffrey Loria, resigned following allegations that he verbally and physically assaulted players, including Chris Valaika.
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Jeffrey Loria is a "widely despised" figure in South Florida; in 2012, a Miami Herald poll found him with a six percent favorability rating among Marlins fans and Major League Baseball fans in South Florida.
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Jeffrey Loria sold the team in 2017 to a group led by Bruce Sherman.
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In February 2017, it was reported that Jeffrey Loria had been in negotiations to sell the Marlins to the family of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of Donald Trump, and that the parties came to "a handshake deal".
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Jeffrey Loria formerly served on the board of the Art Dealers Association of America.