Arizona Diamondbacks

Frank P. Jozsa

Chapter Chapter 11 in National League Franchises: Team Performances Inspire Business Success, 2016, pp 87-94 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During late 1993, Jerry Colangelo—who owned the National Basketball Association (NBA) Phoenix Suns—assembled an investment group titled Arizona Baseball Inc. in order to apply for a Major League Baseball (MLB) expansion team. Confident of being awarded a new franchise, Colangelo’s group held a name-the-team contest and took out a full-page advertisement in the sports section of a February edition of the Arizona Republic. The winning entry, Diamondbacks, was the name of a rattlesnake native to the region and known to inject a large amount of venom when it struck.

Keywords: Major League Baseball; National Basketball Association; National League; World Series; Regular Season (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25993-2_11

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