Jerry McMorris (October 9, 1940 – May 8, 2012) was the principal owner of the
Colorado Rockies of the
National League
The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team ...
from through . A limited partner in the ownership group that founded the Rockies in the early 1990s, he joined with meatpacking heir
Charlie Monfort and
Oren Benton to buy controlling interest in the team after original owner
Mickey Monus was embroiled in an accounting scandal. In 2005, McMorris sold his stake of the franchise to the Charie Monfort and his brother Dick.
McMorris died on May 8, 2012 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71 in a hospital in
Aurora, Colorado
Aurora (, ) is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 United States Census with 336,035 residing in Arapahoe County, 47,720 residing in ...
.
["Jerry McMorris, who helped bring Rockies baseball to Colorado, dies at
71", ''Denver Post']
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McMorris sells stake in Rockies to Monfort brothers
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1940 births
2012 deaths
Place of birth missing
Deaths from pancreatic cancer
Deaths from cancer in Colorado
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