- Eddie Einhorn
Eddie Einhorn (born on
January 3 ,1936 inPaterson, New Jersey ) is minority owner and Vice Chairman of theChicago White Sox .Einhorn produced the nationally syndicated radio broadcast of the
NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1958. In 1960, he founded theTVS Television Network to telecastcollege basketball games to regional networks at a time that the sport was of no interest to the national networks. The first broadcast wasBradley University vs.St. Bonaventure University fromMadison Square Garden . Einhorn helped put together the first national broadcast of college basketball for the Game of the Century between theHouston Cougars andUCLA Bruins in 1968. He later sold his interest in the network and became the head ofCBS Sports .He was formerly the owner of the IWA wrestling promotion in United States in 1975, not to be confused with the IWA in Puerto Rico or IWA Japan.
Einhorn grew up in
Paterson, New Jersey , and has resided inAlpine, New Jersey . [Cahillane, Kevin. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E6D61430F936A1575AC0A9639C8B63 "WORTH NOTING; White Sox Fans? Say It Ain't So"] , "The New York Times ",September 25 ,2005 . AccessedDecember 9 ,2007 . "Mr. Einhorn -- who was born and raised in Paterson and lives in Alpine -- is the flamboyant yin to the steely yang of the principal owner, Jerry Reinsdorf."]References
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