News broke this morning that Chicago White Sox co-owner and executive of 35 years, Eddie Einhorn passed away yesterday evening (February 24, 2016) due to complications from a stroke, Einhorn was 80 years-old.
Born in January of 1936, Eddie Einhorn was raised in Paterson, New Jersey. Einhorn attended Law School at Northwestern University, where he was a classmate of White Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf. He was a vendor at Comiskey Park during the 1959, and 1960 seasons, at which point his love for the White Sox began.
Einhorn produced the NCAA Men’s College Basketball National Championship in 1958.