Kravitz on the death of Mel Simon

I don’t have time to cover it myself today.  Thanks Mel.

“He was going to sell the team to a gentleman who was going to take the franchise to Sacramento,” said Frick, who was intimately involved in the negotiations between Nassi and the Simons. “Finally, the mayor (Bill Hudnut), Jim Morris (then with the Lilly Endowment), Ted Boehm (then a partner at the Baker & Daniels law firm and now on the Indiana Supreme Court) and myself made one last appeal to the Simons, and they agreed they’d do it for the community. It clearly didn’t make any sense for them from a business standpoint. They did it out of love for the city.”