Fred Wilpon’s recent appointment to the Finance Committee led me to google “Fred Wilpon” for some research. During that research I stumbled across the 2011 New Yorker article. That’s the one that gave us great lines like “Carl Crawford Money” and Saul Katz telling us about his balls.
If you haven’t read it in a few years I suggest you do.
Here are some interesting parts.
“No one had heard of us before we bought the Mets, and afterward the change was dramatic,” Wilpon told me. “I don’t think someone has not returned one of my telephone calls in thirty years. It’s a small club, owning a baseball team, and people want to be near it.” As Katz told me, “You take the chairman of the board of a bank, with his grandson, on the field to meet David Wright, and make that grandfather a hero, and you do business the way we do business, it opens up everything.”