SAN FRANCISCO–Peter Magowan, the man credited with saving baseball in San Francisco and leading the charge to build AT&T Park, died Sunday at his home in Pacific Heights. He was 76.
A New York City native who followed the franchise closely when it played at the Polo Grounds, Magowan belonged to a group of Bay Area investors who purchased the Giants in 1993 and prevented the club from leaving the city.
As former Giants owner Bob Lurie prepared to sell the franchise to a group determined to move the Giants to Tampa Bay, Magowan and 16 others including current CEO Larry Baer stepped in with $100 million in a purchase that ensured San Francisco’s professional baseball club would remain in the city.