American sports executive
Jerry Michael Reinsdorf
(born February 25, 1936) is an American sports executive and businessman who is the owner of the
NBA
's
Chicago Bulls
and
MLB
's
Chicago White Sox
. He started his professional life as a tax attorney with the
Internal Revenue Service
. He has been the owner of the White Sox and Bulls for over 35 years. As of May 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$2.2 billion.
[1]
He made his initial fortune in
real estate
, taking advantage of the
Frank Lyon Co. v. United States
decision by the
United States Supreme Court
, which allowed economic owners of realty to sell property and
lease
it back, while transferring the
tax deduction
for
depreciation
to the title owner.
As the owner and chairman of the Chicago Bulls since 1985, he oversaw a turnaround in the franchise's fortunes, culminating in six
NBA Championships
in the 1990s (1991?1993 and 1996?1998). He is controversial for his involvement (along with
Jerry Krause
) in breaking up the championship team by not hiring back
Phil Jackson
. He signed
Michael Jordan
as a baseball player during his sabbatical from basketball. He also moved the Bulls from
Chicago Stadium
to the
United Center
.
After Reinsdorf's purchase of the White Sox in 1981, the franchise made the playoffs in 1983 for the first time since 1959, and won the
World Series
for the first time since 1917 in
2005
, the only year during his tenure as owner in which the White Sox have won a playoff series. Reinsdorf moved the White Sox from
Comiskey Park
to New Comiskey Park in 1991 (now known as
Guaranteed Rate Field
). In both sporting endeavors, he has developed a reputation as an anti-
labor union
hardliner. Since the early 1990s, he has been considered one of the most influential basketball owners. He has been influential in instituting the
salary cap
and
revenue sharing
.
On April 4, 2016, Reinsdorf was elected to the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
as a contributor.
[2]
Early life and college
[
edit
]
Reinsdorf was born to a
Jewish
family in
Brooklyn, New York
.
[3]
[4]
He attended
Erasmus Hall High School
in Brooklyn,
[5]
and is the son of a
sewing machine
salesman.
[6]
[7]
Reinsdorf was in the stands the day
Jackie Robinson
debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers, "breaking the color barrier" as the first black player permitted by white ownership.
[8]
Reinsdorf earned a
bachelor's degree
from
George Washington University
in Washington, D.C.,
[9]
where he became a member of
Alpha Epsilon Pi
.
[10]
He subsequently moved to Chicago in 1957.
[9]
Reinsdorf became a CPA and lawyer
[11]
as well as a registered mortgage
underwriter
and a certified review
appraiser
.
[9]
[12]
He leveraged a full scholarship offer from the
University of Chicago Law School
into a scholarship from the
Northwestern University School of Law
.
[7]
Early business career
[
edit
]
Reinsdorf worked as an IRS lawyer after graduating from Northwestern in 1960, where his first case concerned the tax delinquency of
Bill Veeck
, who at the time owned the White Sox.
[6]
In 1964, he went into private practice. He developed a specialty in real estate partnership
tax shelters
. He sold his business interests in the real estate partnership in 1973 and formed Balcor, which raised US$650 million to invest in buildings under construction. He sold Balcor in 1982 for $102 million to
Shearson Lehman Brothers
, the
investment banking
and brokerage arm of
American Express
.
[6]
However, he continued to be President of the company for several years thereafter.
[13]
Sports ownership
[
edit
]
New purchases
[
edit
]
In 1981 he was wealthy enough to purchase the White Sox for $19 million.
[6]
The purchase was brokered by
American National Bank
who arranged for a
limited partnership
.
[14]
He followed previous eccentric White Sox owners
Charles Comiskey
, who was known as a
miser
, and Veeck, who was known as a prankster who gutted the team by trading away promising prospects.
[15]
[16]
Soon after buying the White Sox, he signed
Greg Luzinski
and
Carlton Fisk
. He also tripled the team promotional budget and increased the number of team
scouts
from 12 to 20. By the
1983 Major League Baseball season
the White Sox made the playoffs with the best record in the Major Leagues.
[6]
[16]
The team initially signed a television deal with the newly founded
Sportsvision
under the new leadership of Chairman Reinsdorf and Vice Chairman
Eddie Einhorn
, but that arrangement quickly fizzled.
[17]
Einhorn continued as Vice Chairman of the White Sox until his death in 2016.
[18]
In 1985 he purchased the Chicago Bulls as part of a
syndicate
for US$16 million, following in the footsteps of Einhorn, who had purchased the
United States Football League
's
Chicago Blitz
franchise in 1984.
[19]
In the months prior to the purchase,
Milwaukee
businessman
Marvin Fishman
had been awarded a $16.2 million judgment against the Bulls.
[20]
Fishman had been illegally blocked from purchasing the team in 1972.
[21]
Reinsdorf purchased the team from an ownership group that included
Lamar Hunt
,
George Steinbrenner
,
Walter Shorenstein
, Jonathan Kovler,
Lester Crown
,
Philip Klutznick
, and the estate of
Arthur Wirtz
,
[19]
and he held a $9.2 million controlling interest in the team.
[22]
Reinsdorf's share of 56.8% of the team was purchased from Klutznick, Steinbrenner, Shorenstein and the estate of Wirtz.
[23]
His purchase ended an era in which the Bulls were managed by committee with decisions by conference call, verdicts by vote.
[24]
Reinsdorf acquired his majority interests on March 11, 1985, and Kovler sold his 7% stake in the team on January 29, 1986, bringing Reinsdorf's interest to 63%.
[25]
[26]
The following week Reinsdorf ousted
Rod Thorn
as
general manager
and replaced him with
Jerry Krause
.
[27]
Led by Jordan, who was drafted the year before Reinsdorf purchased the team, the team's popularity and on-court success rapidly improved.
[6]
The Bulls drafted
Horace Grant
and
Scottie Pippen
and traded for
Bill Cartwright
to join
John Paxson
and
Michael Jordan
under the tutelage of
head coach
Doug Collins
. In 1989, the franchise promoted then-Bulls assistant coach
Phil Jackson
to be Collins's replacement at the team's helm. Jackson would prove to be the final core addition, catalyzing the Bulls' dynastic championship run of six NBA championship titles in eight seasons (1991?1998).
[28]
Whereas before Reinsdorf's purchase the team had an average attendance of 6,365 in the 17,339-seat
Chicago Stadium
,
[6]
from November 20, 1987, through Jordan's 1998 retirement, the Bulls sold out every game.
[22]
Ownership history
[
edit
]
"The North Siders always tended to look down on
South Siders
... Part of being a White Sox fan is you hate the
Cubs
."
?Jerry Reinsdorf
[29]
The
White Sox
won
American League
regular season Division Championships in 1983, 1993, 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2021 under Reinsdorf, and won the
2005 World Series
.
[3]
They also led the central division at the conclusion of the strike-shortened
1994 Major League Baseball season
.
[3]
The World Series victory made him only the third owner in the history of North American sports to win a championship in two different sports,
[
citation needed
]
and boosted the value of the franchise to over $300 million.
[15]
Reinsdorf signed Jordan to a minor league contract with the White Sox after Jordan's announcement that he wanted to play baseball, a move many thought was solely due to Jordan's drawing power.
[30]
Reinsdorf had tried to convince Jordan not to give up basketball,
[31]
but had not attempted to make Jordan the highest paid player in the game, as some felt he should have.
[32]
As both a basketball and baseball owner, Reinsdorf has been described by
Time
as a "cheapskate."
[33]
[34]
As a baseball owner, he has a reputation as one of the most militant, anti-union, hard-line owners.
[12]
[35]
[36]
Newsweek
described him as "one of the hardest heads in the
1994 baseball strike
."
[32]
In the baseball offseason between the 1992 and 1993 seasons, he completely abstained from the
free agent
market.
[37]
Reinsdorf was one of the last holdouts to the 1996 labor agreement that instituted the
salary cap
while retaining
arbitration
rights for the players.
[38]
[39]
His 1996 signing of
Albert Belle
made news because of his widely publicized general opposition to spiraling player salaries.
[12]
The $55 million signing was a turning point in the decision by the baseball owners to agree to
revenue sharing
.
[40]
The signing made Reinsdorf the employer of the highest paid
Major League Baseball
player and highest paid professional basketball player (Jordan) at the same time.
[12]
Reinsdorf had just re-signed Jordan after the
1995?96 NBA season
.
[41]
Jordan had been underpaid for most of his career,
[42]
but Reinsdorf did not feel he could justify the $30 million salary from a business standpoint.
[43]
[44]
Even his most successful baseball team was not highly paid: the
2005 World Series
champion White Sox had the 13th highest payroll of the 30 Major League Baseball teams.
[34]
After Reinsdorf purchased the team in 1981, the White Sox experienced erosion of fan and media support.
[16]
He complained about old
Comiskey Park
with its foibles such as numerous obstructed view seats and threatened to move the White Sox.
[45]
Among his threats was moving the team to
Itasca
or
Addison, Illinois
in
DuPage County
.
[45]
[46]
Reinsdorf, through his real estate business, purchased 100 acres (400,000 m
2
) in Addison.
[47]
Chicago Mayor
Harold Washington
lobbied the Illinois legislature,
[45]
and subsequently then-Illinois Governor
James R. Thompson
promoted a package of incentives to retain the team in Chicago. The state floated bonds to build
New Comiskey Park
and let Reinsdorf keep all parking and concession revenues, as well as the $5 million per year from 89 skyboxes.
[6]
Reinsdorf and
Chicago Blackhawks
owner
William Wirtz
contributed $175 million to fund the construction of the largest arena in the United States.
[48]
When the
United Center
opened in 1994 all of the skyboxes were leased for up to eight years.
[49]
As per the
collective bargaining agreement
, Reinsdorf was allowed to exclude 60% of luxury suite revenue from "basketball-related income" and thus it is not part of the revenue sharing income.
[50]
Reinsdorf is a powerful baseball owner who in 1988 stopped the sale of the
Texas Rangers
and later influenced the sale of the
Seattle Mariners
.
[6]
Edward Gaylord
and
Gaylord Entertainment Company
had first attempted to buy the Rangers in 1985.
[51]
Reinsdorf was also said to be largely responsible for the ousting of
Fay Vincent
as the
Commissioner of Baseball
in 1992.
[52]
[53]
He had previously undermined Vincent by employing
Richard Ravitch
as the league's labor negotiator at a salary higher than Vincent's.
[6]
[54]
By the early 1990s, Reinsdorf and acting Baseball commissioner (as well as
Milwaukee Brewers
owner)
Bud Selig
had assumed baseball's mantle of power from
Atlanta Braves
owner,
Ted Turner
, and
New York Yankees
owner,
George Steinbrenner
, who had in turn taken over the sport from
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers
owner
Walter O'Malley
,
St. Louis Cardinals
owner
Gussie Busch
, and
Oakland Athletics
owner
Charlie O. Finley
.
[55]
In the 1980s, Reinsdorf,
Bud Selig
and the
American League
President colluded to dissuade the
Philadelphia Phillies
from signing
Lance Parrish
who was a
Detroit Tigers
free agent
.
[56]
During the strike, Reinsdorf, who was an anti-union hard-liner,
[36]
was so pessimistic that he did not expect baseball to resume until the
1996 Major League Baseball season
.
[57]
In the early 1990s he was able to get new stadiums (
United Center
and
New Comiskey Park
) for his teams.
[58]
Some fans and columnists have accused Reinsdorf of breaking up the championship Bulls team after their third straight title and sixth in eight years, claiming the
Bulls
could have competed for more titles with
Michael Jordan
,
Scottie Pippen
and good support from the rest of the team that in the eight-year span included
Dennis Rodman
,
Horace Grant
,
Toni Kuko?
,
Ron Harper
,
B. J. Armstrong
, and coach
Phil Jackson
. Some accounts claim that because Jackson feuded with both Reinsdorf and Krause and because both Jordan and Pippen were linked to Jackson, the team was broken up.
[33]
Forbes
describes the scenario as an example of owner greed.
[59]
Many note that Phil Jackson's decision not to return as coach and Jordan's retirement during the
1998?99 NBA season
lockout
impacted the decisions of several players on whether to return to Chicago.
[60]
While Reinsdorf had held out hope that he could convince Jackson and Jordan to return and thus had introduced
Tim Floyd
as President of Chicago Bulls Basketball Operations instead of
head coach
,
[61]
according to film footage from documentary series
The Last Dance
, Krause had made it clear to Jackson that he was not wanted back.
[62]
Reinsdorf was one of two bidders for the
Phoenix Coyotes
that would commit to not relocating the team.
[63]
On July 29, 2009 Reinsdorf and his group were approved for ownership of the Coyotes for $148 million.
[64]
In August 2009, it was reported that Jerry Reinsdorf & Ice Edge LLC had dropped its bid for the Coyotes, leaving only Balsillie and the NHL as bidders for the team.
[65]
The NHL bid ultimately prevailed, however the league stated it wished to re-sell the franchise as soon as possible. On March 24, 2010, it was reported that Reinsdorf was once again a possible buyer for the Phoenix Coyotes.
[66]
Reinsdorf had been working out an arrangement to make the deal more feasible with the municipality of
Glendale, Arizona
.
[67]
As late as August 2011, negotiations between Reinsdorf and the City of Glendale were still in process for the purchase of the Coyotes.
[68]
However, in 2013, the Coyotes were sold to IceArizona, a group of investors that did not include Reinsdorf.
Legacy
[
edit
]
Reinsdorf is largely responsible for the
revenue sharing
of the internet rights of Major League Baseball in which all teams have shared equally since Major League Baseball Advanced Media (known as BAM) was established in 2000.
[69]
Reinsdorf also endeavored to sell the naming rights to the New Comiskey Park to
U.S. Cellular
in a $68 million 20-year deal that funded a 7-year $85 million overhaul of the stadium that ended prior to the
2008 Major League Baseball season
. The overhaul included the removal of top rows of the upper deck, replacement of the baby blue seats with traditionally-colored green ones and dozens of other upgrades.
[70]
Prior to the seven-year overhaul, the
2001 White Sox
barely broke even financially with a $700,000 operating profit on revenues of $101.33 million.
[71]
Reinsdorf won a major revenue sharing legal battle with other NBA owners over the Chicago Bulls broadcasts on
WGN-TV
. The 55 game schedule on the superstation for an audience of 35 million competed with the NBA broadcasts, but Reinsdorf was permitted to maintain the contract.
[6]
As recently as 2004, the Bulls continued to be the NBA's most profitable team, earning $49 million in
operating income
and having an estimated valuation of $356 million.
[72]
Reinsdorf feels that if
Major League Baseball Players Association
chief
Donald Fehr
had not opposed
steroid
testing, baseball would have taken a stand against steroid use much sooner. He feels that in the end this delayed action will cost some players election into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
.
[73]
Awards and honors
[
edit
]
Sports ownership
Halls of Fame
Other
Charity work
[
edit
]
Reinsdorf has been involved in Chicago Mayor
Richard M. Daley
's initiative to improve
standardized test
scores in the 559
Chicago Public Schools
.
[77]
He has been involved in other extensive charitable work including those of CharitaBulls and White Sox Charities. His philanthropy and community development have been notable in the
Near West Side
community area
near the United Center.
[9]
Twice the White Sox Charities has donated $1 million to the
Chicago Park District
with particular attention to funding baseball and
softball
fields.
[3]
Other business dealings
[
edit
]
He has been a member of the
board of directors
of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., the Northwestern University Law School Alumni Association,
LaSalle Bank
,
EQ Office
and numerous other corporations and charities. He currently serves as a Life Trustee of
Northwestern University
.
Throughout the years Reinsdorf has been active in the affairs of baseball, serving on the Executive Council and Ownership, Long Range Planning, Restructuring, Expansion, Equal Opportunity, Strategic Planning, Legislative and Labor Policy Committees of Major League Baseball, he also serves on the Boards of MLB Advanced Media and MLB Enterprises.
[3]
In 2013, Reinsdorf partnered with
Mark Sullivan
, Noah Kroloff,
Dennis Burke
,
David Aguilar
, and John Kaites to found Global Security and Innovative Strategies.
[78]
Personal life
[
edit
]
In 1956, he married Martyl Rifkin (March 4, 1936 – June 28, 2021).
[79]
She was born in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Milton and Vivette Rifkin (nee Ravel).
[79]
Their union resulted in four children and eight grandchildren.
[79]
[9]
[80]
See also
[
edit
]
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Tyrone Stevenson
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Vanessa Strickland
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