Majority owner of the Mariners and the founder of Nintendo, Hiroshi Yamauchi, passed away today.
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Mariners majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi has died in Japan at age 85. Yamauchi was the patriarch of video games company Nintendo Corp. and owned an estimated 10 percent of its worldwide holdings.
Yamauchi also held a 55 percent stake in a Mariners club he purchased back in 1992, along with a group of minority investors from the Seattle area. Prior to that purchase, it appeared as if the team was about to be offered to a group looking to relocate it to St. Petersburg, Fla.
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I thank him for saving the Mariners from moving but he also never attended a game in person. Hopefully his death will finally mean the end of Lincoln and Armstrong and turn the page of inept and unaccountable management.