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- H._Gabriel_Murphy abstract "H. Gabriel Murphy (1903 – 2001) was an American businessman and Major League Baseball club owner. From June 1950 through April 1984, he was a minority stockholder in the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League. A longtime insurance executive in Washington, D.C., Murphy was known for his battles with majority owner Calvin Griffith over management of the club, and especially over Griffith's decision to relocate the Senators to Minneapolis-St. Paul at the close of the 1960 baseball season. Murphy was a native of Hogansburg, New York, who attended Georgetown University in Washington, where he starred in football, earned a law degree, and served as athletics director (1930–41).Ironically, Murphy had purchased his stake in the Washington franchise in 1950 as an ally of Calvin's uncle, Baseball Hall of Famer Clark Griffith, who was then the team's president. Griffith was the club's largest shareholder (with 44 percent), but he lacked majority control of its stock. Murphy's 40.4 percent share in the team originally was George H. Richardson's, but when Richardson died in 1949, his estate sold his baseball holdings to New York businessman John J. Jachym, bypassing Clark Griffith. When Jachym attempted to obtain a seat on the Senators' board of directors and a voice in the team's operations, however, he was thwarted by Griffith and the board. Jachym then sold his stock to Murphy in June 1950. Griffith considered Murphy, then 47, a friendly partner; Murphy had dealt with the owner over the years when he negotiated a lease on Griffith Stadium for use by the Georgetown Hoyas varsity football team. Murphy's investment ended any threat to Griffith's control of the club; in return he was reported to have acquired right of first refusal should the Senators be put up for sale.When the 85-year-old Clark Griffith died in October 1955, his nephew Calvin and niece Thelma Griffith Haynes inherited 52 percent of the team's stock and majority control, with Calvin becoming the Senators' president and de facto general manager. He and Murphy soon began to clash over the floundering team's management. The Senators' front office included three of Griffith's brothers, plus his brother-in-law Joe Haynes, sister Thelma's husband. The Senators lost over 90 games for five consecutive seasons (1955–59) and finished in last place for three successive seasons (1957–59). Murphy wanted Griffith to relinquish his general manager duties and hire an outsider to run the team's baseball operations; Griffith flatly refused. In protest, Murphy resigned as the Senators' treasurer and member of the board of directors in 1956.Their disagreements intensified when Griffith began entertaining offers from cities wishing to lure the Senators from Washington. In the autumn of 1960, when after protracted negotiations with Twin Cities officials the team finally moved, Murphy filed suit in federal court seeking to block the transfer. He battled Griffith in court for eight years and tried unsuccessfully to have a summons served in the District of Columbia on Griffith; when the Twins won the 1965 American League pennant (with Murphy still the club's largest minority shareholder), the threat kept Griffith from attending the flag-clinching game, played at D.C. Stadium against the expansion Washington Senators club created to assuage official Washington for Griffith's 1960 abandonment.Murphy held onto his share of the Twins until April 1984, when he agreed to sell his stake to the Tampa Bay Baseball Group. After Griffith sold his majority control to Carl Pohlad in August 1984, the Tampa Bay group sold Murphy's shares to Pohlad. Gabriel Murphy retired from his insurance business in 1994, and died at age 98 on November 1, 2001, from a heart ailment at his Washington home.".
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- H._Gabriel_Murphy comment "H. Gabriel Murphy (1903 – 2001) was an American businessman and Major League Baseball club owner. From June 1950 through April 1984, he was a minority stockholder in the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League. A longtime insurance executive in Washington, D.C., Murphy was known for his battles with majority owner Calvin Griffith over management of the club, and especially over Griffith's decision to relocate the Senators to Minneapolis-St.".
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