Nelson Doubleday, Jr.

Nelson Doubleday Jr. ( born July 20, 1933) is the son of Nelson Doubleday and grandson of Frank Nelson Doubleday, the founder of the publishing company Doubleday. From 1985 to 2002 he was co-owner of the New York Mets.

Doubleday and Fred Wilpon stood in front of a group of investors, the New York Mets for kolportierte 21.1 million U.S. dollars acquired on 24 January 1980 - the then-record for an American franchise companies. 80 percent of this amount was deposited by the publishing house Doubleday Publishing Company. On November 14, 1986 the shares were purchased for 80.75 million U.S. dollars from Doubleday and Wilpon. In August 2002, both agreed after protracted disagreements that Wilpon should take over the Mets in their entirety. Ultimately, this Doubleday paid for half of which more than 135 million U.S. dollars.

Its shares at Doubleday Doubleday Group sold also in 1986 for 475 million U.S. dollars to the Bertelsmann AG.

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) dedicated to him as the grandson of his publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday, the poem "If".

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