Jerry Wolman

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Jerry Wolman (b. Shenandoah, Pennsylvania) was a Washington, D.C. developer and the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team of the National Football League. Wolman bought the Eagles franchise in 1963 for a sale price of $5,505,000.

He was also one of the founding owners, briefly in 1967, of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. Over the next two years, his $100-million financial empire crumbled into bankruptcy, and he was forced to give up his interests in both teams. In 1967, he sold his Flyers interest to his co-owners, with Ed Snider assuming control. In 1969, he sold the Eagles to Leonard Tose for a reported $16.1 million, then a record price for a professional sports team.

Wolman is a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame; one of its chapters is named after him.

Wolman had also initiated the development of the John Hancock Center, a 110-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, but was forced off the project because of his financial difficulties.

Wolman now lives happily in Potomac, Maryland, is a father of 2 and a grandfather of 7.

He has taken over and reconstructed a water company in Ellicott City, Maryland. He is slowly turning it into one of the largest water distributors in Maryland.

Preceded by 65 stockholders

Philadelphia Eagles Owners 1963–1969

Succeeded by Leonard Tose