Jack Kent Cooke

Jack Kent Cooke ( born October 25, 1912 in Hamilton, Ontario, † April 6, 1997 in Washington, DC) was a Canadian media entrepreneur and owner of several U.S. professional teams from different sports.

Cooke got his first job in 1937 at a local radio station in Stratford (Ontario ), and so found a foothold in the industry in which he came to wealth. In 1951 he bought a professional team, the baseball team of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Nine years later he moved to California, where he led the basketball team Los Angeles Lakers bought in 1965 for 5.2 million U.S. dollars by Bob Short. The following year he purchased the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. As an arena for both teams Cooke 1967 can build the Great Western Forum in Inglewood. In 1967 he founded the football club Los Angeles Wolves was the U.S. champion in the same year and in 1968 co-founded the North American Soccer League was.

As Promoters organized Cooke 1971 fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. In 1974 he became shareholders of the Washington Redskins in 1978 moved eventually all the way to Washington and sold a year later, the Lakers, the Kings and the Forum for 67.5 million U.S. dollars to Jerry Buss. In 1985 he purchased the Los Angeles Daily News. In September 1995, his eldest son Ralph Kent Cooke died at the age of 58 years.

Cooke died at the age of 84 years due to heart failure.

• Entrepreneurs ( Canada )
• Basketball official
• Canadian
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1997
• Man