LOTD: Minnesota Twins Owner Carl Pohlad Dies

About an hour ago, I made the following rather flippant remark in a post about Jay Mariotti’s first column at FanHouse:

Ladies and gentleman of the blogosphere, today was a very sad day in the sports world. No, nobody famous passed away and no superstars suffered horrible injuries (at least, not yet — and hopefully neither of these things happens the rest of tonight or I really will start to consider myself a jinx).

In the hour since I posted that article, word broke that Minnesota Twins owner Carl Pohlad passed away at age 93. I include the excerpt from the Mariotti column not to make light, but to hold myself accountable for making jokes about death. As usual, karma will come back to bite you every time.

In the interest of respecting the life and passing of Carl Pohlad, I am using today’s LOTD to provide links to stories about Pohlad’s life, his success as a both a banker and baseball owner, and some of the controversy that swirled around his sometimes rocky tenure as owner of the Twins.

My thoughts and sympathy go out to the Pohlad family, and to Twins fans everywhere.

Twins owner Pohlad dies at 93 – (SI.com)

Carl Pohlad – (Wikipedia)

Longtime Twins owner Carl Pohlad, 93, dies – (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)

Carl Pohlad ranked #245 on Forbes List of World’s Richest People – (Forbes.com)

Pohlad family maintains diverse business empire – (Minneapolis Business Journal)

Pohlad, Twins Not Sharing the Wealth – (NY Times)

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