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J.J. Lannin (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• aware health said:

  President and briefly owner of the Red Sox.

• Wystan said:

  Joseph John Lannin, a native of Canada, came up from poverty to own several hotels in the U. S. He acquired the Boston Red Sox in 1914, for $200,000 (a princely sum at the time) and owned the team for only three years. He is remembered for hiring Babe Ruth, but a later team owner let Ruth go. In 1928, Lannin died under peculiar circumstances, falling from a high window of his Brooklyn (N.Y.) hotel.

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks Wystan, we'll fill in the name and the date of the photo the next time we update the record.

• Richard Norton said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_John_Lannin