11 Facts About Joseph Lannin

Joseph John Lannin was a Canadian-born American baseball entrepreneur.

Joseph Lannin was the sole owner of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball for most of the 1914 through 1916 seasons, during which the team won two World Series.

Orphaned at the age of 14, Joseph Lannin migrated from Quebec to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as a hotel bellboy.

Joseph Lannin married Hannah Furlong and had two children, Paul Joseph Lannin and Dorothy A Lannin.

Joseph Lannin soon learned about real estate and the commodities market by listening to conversations of the wealthy patrons at his hotel and taking advice from those who were willing to share their insights with him.

Joseph Lannin sold the team in 1917 to Harry Frazee for $675,000.

Joseph Lannin acquired Roosevelt Airfield on Long Island, where Charles Lindbergh began his historic transatlantic flight.

Joseph Lannin provided Lindbergh with a room at his nearby hotel and watched the takeoff from Roosevelt Airfield on May 20,1927.

Joseph Lannin died on May 15,1928, aged 62, in Brooklyn, having fallen or jumped from a window of a hotel that he owned; it was not known if he had a medical issue or died by suicide.

Joseph Lannin is interred at the Cemetery of the Holy Rood, Garden City, New York.

Joseph Lannin was inducted to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 2004.