[USML Announce] USML - Cubs connection ?

[Andrew R. Klein]

This is all very cool.  If they win the bid, I'm counting on skybox 
tickets!!

-Andy

mbblocker at aol.com wrote:
> Tom's brother Pete (who also had a USML team in 1989) was my roommate 
> in college (Univ. of Chicago).  Tom also went to UofC and he and I got 
> to be friends through Pete.  Since then, I have represented Tom's 
> company in litigation, and worked on Pete's unsuccessful Senate 
> campaign, but those are both way after-the-fact in this story.  
> Neither are lawyers.
>
> When the league was first founded, many of the owners were college 
> friends, or friends of my college friends who worked at Lexecon, and 
> some of us were from sidley.  I think about half of the league 
> ownership in 1989 worked at Lexecon.  Over the next few years, many of 
> the "Lexecon owners" were replaced with "Sidley owners" (including 
> you) and I know you know the history from there.
>
> Thanks for asking, so that I had an excuse to take a trip down (a 
> very pleasant) memory lane.
>
>   -- Mark B.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: springkerb at aol.com
> To: announce at usml.net
> Sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:43 am
> Subject: Re: [USML Announce] USML - Cubs connection ?
>
> Were they clients, or was he once an attorney?  What was the connection?
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mbblocker at aol.com <mailto:mbblocker at aol.com>
> To: announce at usml.net <mailto:announce at usml.net>
> Sent: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 8:06 am
> Subject: [USML Announce] USML - Cubs connection ?
>
> For League historians:
>
> The Tribune carried an article today on page 1 of the business section 
> announcing a new group has been formed that is seeking to purchase the 
> Cubs.  The group mainly consists of members of the Ricketts family 
> (which owns TD Ameritrade), and is led by Tom Ricketts.  Some of you 
> may recognize Tom's name as a former USML owner.  Tom owned a team in 
> the inaugural USML season of 1989, along with his college friend Dave 
> Wilson.  If you go to the usml.net website, click on "prognosticators 
> alley" then click on "memory lane," then click on the "1989 final 
> standings," you will discover that the "Dave/Tom" team finished a 
> distant 8th out of 11 USML teams (to the eventual 1989 Champion 
> Block's Bombers).  For all of the USML Cubs fans, lets hope that if 
> the Ricketts Family does acquire the Cubs, they can do better than that !
>
>   -- Mark B.
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