RIP Eddie Einhorn

[BlackSox13]

Good grief. Well, before this thread gets shut down I just want to say RIP to Eddie and hope for the best for his friends and relatives.

 

http://www.northjersey.com/news/funeral-se...ering-1.1519429

[LDF]

Good grief. Well, before this thread gets shut down I just want to say RIP to Eddie and hope for the best for his friends and relatives.

 

http://www.northjersey.com/news/funeral-se...ering-1.1519429

 

classy .... well done.

[Buehrle>Wood]

Cross posting this from the wrestling thread but here is a write up on Einhorn's pre-Sox career and foray into wrestling.

 

[Eddie Einhorn, a major sports figure and innovator for the last five decades, who had a major connection with pro wrestling at two different periods, passed away on 2/24 from complications from a stroke at the age of 80. We’ll hopefully have a more in-depth story, but Einhorn was credited with putting college basketball on the map as a nationally televised sport, and was a minority owner and former president of the Chicago White Sox. Einhorn may have been the first sports franchise owner to be a regular reader of this publication, from its earliest days. A fan of almost all sports growing up, including pro wrestling, Einhorn teamed with Pedro Martinez in 1975 to try and run a national wrestling promotion, the International Wrestling Association (IWA) that tried to run opposition to the NWA and WWWF. They offered guaranteed money contracts, which the established company didn’t do, as well as paid transportation, and hotels for the competitors. They built around Mil Mascaras as their world champion, but had trouble booking major arenas because the established promotions, which had run those arenas regularly, had exclusive deals. This was also one of the last examples of the unity of the promotions, which banded together to fight the IWA and promoters would send their talent to help load up on shows to run head-to-head when the IWA invaded someone’s territory. The group was best known for running three outdoor shows that summer at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ, drawing more than 14,000 for Mascaras vs. Ivan Koloff, and crowds of just over 8,000 and just over 9,000 for Mascaras vs. Ernie Ladd. But they were unable to get dates in Madison Square Garden or the Nassau Coliseum, and felt they couldn’t run outdoors as the weather got colder. Einhorn pulled out and Martinez and Johnny Powers ran the promotion for a few more years in the Carolinas as opposition to Jim Crockett Promotions. In 1981, he and Jerry Reinsdorf put together a group to buy the Chicago White Sox. He at that point became friend with Verne Gagne and often attended the AWA shows in the city. In 1984, when Vince McMahon went national, Einhorn got back into wrestling and tried to work with the other leading promoters to band together against McMahon. Meetings were held in Chicago with the key promoters of the era, and Einhorn helped them get television in the Northeast as Pro Wrestling USA. The joke was that the promoters of that era, who were all used to calling their own shots, couldn’t agree on anything, even where to go for lunch. Very quickly, Jerry Jarrett and Bill Watts pulled out. Fritz Von Erich never came. And the united front consisted of Gagne and Jim Crockett Promotions, and they worked together for a short period of time, having some success early on before crowds dwindled with each appearance. Crockett, who had more money than Gagne, and booker Dusty Rhodes, would talk to Gagne’s key talent, most notably his biggest act at the time, the Road Warriors, and offered them more money to leave. Einhorn stayed out of the business end after that, but remained a fan well into the 90s

[ewokpelts]

The end of the Veeck era was a turbulent time for the Sox. If you google "Marvin Davis to buy the White Sox," you can read about oilman Davis' attempt to buy the White Sox and Comiskey Park, move the Sox to Denver, and lease Comiskey Park to the Oakland A's (probably after Charley Finley sold the A's to a new ownership group). Next came the DeBartolo fiasco—and I apologize that I got the city wrong, it was New Orleans—and finally Veeck sold the club to Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn. You can google "Ed DeBartolo to buy the White Sox" and read articles about that non-sale as well.

 

While Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn have made some mistakes and stepped on some toes over the past 35+ years, they did bring us the 2005 World Series Champions.

Finley lived in Northwest Indiana. He would have moved the A's to comiskey park and ran them with MC Hammer.

Edited March 7, 2016 by ewokpelts

[ewokpelts]

well i wasn't going to say anything negative on EE rip thread. so i will keep it simple. the very first mistake, the gamble on pushing for a move to the NW and loosing, then loosing to the south loop. eventually stay where they are.

 

that is the beginning of a chain of mistakes.

 

enuf said on my part.

loosing?

[ewokpelts]

"SOME mistakes"? Lol - "understatement" called and said you just made a MAJOR one. Good lord, Reinsdorf & Einhorn have been a disaster over the last 35 years. There is NO arguing that. Look at their record: their many organizational missteps have had the cumulative effect of the organization being in the shape it is today.

 

And here we are today, with our Chairman admittedly continuing to be the dominant voice in the day-to-day decision making, continuing to contribute to the make-up of our team's composition. As a result, look at this roster. Look at the missed opportunities this offseason to enable it to compete this season. I mean, W-O-W!!

 

Who among you feel confident in this management team's ability to put together a roster now and going forward capable of reversing this team's fortunes of recent years to compete for something meaningful?

that disaster of jerry and eddie has produced more championships than the last FOUR cubs ownership groups(i dont know how many owners were there before wrigley, so this number could be higher).

 

 

And they also have placed the sox in a position to never leave chicago again.