M. Donald Grant (1904-1998) was the chairman of the New York Mets baseball club from its beginnings in the early-1960s to 1978. Michael Donald Grant was born in Montreal in 1904, the son of Hockey Hall of Fame member Mike Grant. The younger Grant tried his hand at amateur hockey in Canada before coming to the United States in the mid-1920s. Grant's interest in baseball stemmed from a long-standing friendship with Joan Whitney Payson, … Wikipedia
While Grant certainly foresaw the worst in free agency, he also saw players as indentured servants, making him a dinosaur. And by refusing to adjust to the changing economics of baseball, he along with the DeRoulets turned the Mets into a barren wastelan ultimatemets.com/profile.php?PlayerCode=6624
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