Juan Manuel Ley López (February 17, 1933 – January 22, 2016) was a Mexican businessman, and the

Casa Ley Casa Ley is a Mexican grocery store chain based in Culiacán founded in 1954 by Juan Ley Fong. Most of its stores are located in western Mexico, in the states of Baja California, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Coahuila, Durango, ...

chairman. He also was president of the baseball teams

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in the Mexican Summer League and

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in the Mexican Winter League. In 1910, Ley's father, Lee Fong, left Guangdong province, China by boat. When he arrived in Sinaloa city, he "Mexicanized" his name to Juan Ley Fong instead. Ley himself was born and raised in Mexico. The eldest of eight brothers and sisters, Juan Manuel was the CEO of Culiacán Sinaloa Mexico's Based Grupo Ley until his death, which comprises several companies going from Casa Ley SA de CV, one of Mexico's largest retail supermarkets (co-owned by California-based

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), Apparel Stores, Baseball Teams in both Mexican Leagues (Saraperos de Saltillo and Tomateros de Culiacán), Automobile Dealerships, and Del Campo y Asociados, one of the largest producers of fresh tomatoes for export into the United States. He was born February 17, 1933, in

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and died January 22, 2016, at 82 years old in Culiacan, Sinaloa,

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Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame The Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Profesional de México (in English, Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame), commonly called the Salón de la Fama (Hall of Fame) is a baseball hall of fame and museum located in Monterrey, Nuevo León. ...

in 2006.

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Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame inductees Mexican businesspeople Mexican people of Chinese descent Safeway Inc. People from Culiacán 1933 births 2016 deaths {{Mexico-business-bio-stub