Soundwave on 29 April 2016
| Ruler said: Why did they owned a baseball team in the first place? |
It was the early 1990s and Minoru Arakawa and Howard Lincoln who were running Nintendo of America in Seattle.
The Seattle Mariners baseball team was in danger of moving because of ownership problems. Arakawa (Yamauchi's son-in-law) and Lincoln convinced Yamauchi to make a bid for the team in order to keep it in Seattle.
Yamauchi, who was swimming in money, agreed, though it was a big bruhaha at the time about a Japanese ownership group taking over an American baseball team.
Famously Yamauchi never watched the Mariners play even a single game, not even when they played in Tokyo.
