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A new kind of baseball owner

By Rob Neyer
ESPN.com

Thursday, August 15, 2002

The nature of markets is to trend. The nature of life is to trend. -- John Henry, quoted in The New York Times, 7/26/2002 When John Henry was 25 years old, he took over the family farm. That was nearly 30 years ago, and since then he's become quite wealthy, having established a hugely successful investment fund group. So wealthy, in fact, that he's owned a small piece of the New York Yankees, a very large piece of the Florida Marlins, and now a very large piece of the Boston Red Sox. Oh, and ...

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