UNHWildCats
January 5th, 2009, 05:46 PM
Carl Pohlad, a working-poor son of the Great Depression who became one of America's wealthiest dealmakers, has died. He was 93.
A financier who came to be best known through his 1984 acquisition of the Minnesota Twins, Pohlad also headed a family-owned network of banking, bottling, real estate and other companies.
Forbes magazine said in its annual ranking in September that Pohlad was worth an estimated $3.8 billion, the 102nd richest person in America.
Pohlad generally was a private man who fulfilled his prediction of never retiring because business and deals were as critical to him as breathing.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/37106499.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD 3aPc:_Yyc:aU1E::Dy_oacyKU
A financier who came to be best known through his 1984 acquisition of the Minnesota Twins, Pohlad also headed a family-owned network of banking, bottling, real estate and other companies.
Forbes magazine said in its annual ranking in September that Pohlad was worth an estimated $3.8 billion, the 102nd richest person in America.
Pohlad generally was a private man who fulfilled his prediction of never retiring because business and deals were as critical to him as breathing.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/twins/37106499.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD 3aPc:_Yyc:aU1E::Dy_oacyKU