Forbes: Baseball’s Best Boss

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After a spring training game in march between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, a half-dozen fans were waiting outside in the warm Arizona afternoon sun to catch autographs from players heading to the parking lot. Back inside Tempe’s Diablo Stadium a crowd, six wide and eight rows deep, waited for Arturo Moreno, the Angels’ owner, to sign baseballs and hats and pose for pictures. Moreno told his wife, Carole, he should be finished within minutes so they could drive home together. He stayed for another hour, signing almost as many autographs for Dodgers fans as he did for Angels fans.

Not very often does a professional baseball team owner get more fan attention than his star athletes, and even less often does the owner give it back, especially to fans of another team.