James Keelty

James S. Keelty Jr. (December 23, 1911 – August 26, 2003) was part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles of the American League from 1954 to 1959.

Keelty was a Baltimore-area real estate developer who started James Keelty & Co. Inc. with his younger brother Joseph in 1946.^[1] He was also one of the investors in a group headed by Clarence Miles who had led the effort to bring the Orioles to Baltimore. He succeeded Miles as team president in early November 1955, stepping down in favor of Lee MacPhail at the end of the 1959 season.^[2]

References

↑ The Keelty Company - Brief History.
↑ Miller, James Edward. The Baseball Business. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

External links

James Keelty's obituary

Principal owners of the Baltimore Orioles franchise

Milwaukee Brewers (1901)	Henry Killilea

St. Louis Browns (1902–1953)	Robert Hedges Phil Ball Phil Ball estate Donald Lee Barnes Richard Muckerman Bill DeWitt Bill Veeck

Baltimore Orioles (1954–present)	Jerold Hoffberger & Clarence Miles Jerold Hoffberger & James Keelty Jerold Hoffberger & Joe Iglehart Jerold Hoffberger Edward Bennett Williams Eli Jacobs Peter Angelos

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