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Jake Embry's (D. 2002) professional ownership career began in 1944 when he purchased the Baltimore Bullets basketball team. He would later have ownerships stakes in the Baltimore Colts football team and Baltimore Clippers hockey team.
From his obituary,
"Mr. Embry and Tom Tinsley, owner of WITH, purchased the American League Bullets basketball team for $7,500 in 1944.
Realizing that the American League was too small, he managed to get the team into the Basketball Association of America in 1947, and it grew into the National Basketball Association. The Bullets then became the city's first major-league team, playing at the old Coliseum on Monroe Street. Hampered by their inability to find a suitable building for increased seating and profits, WITH sold the team to other local interests in 1949.
In 1947, he had also become a part-owner with 16 others of the Colts, then in the All-American Conference. He later served as president of the football team.
After its failure, Mr. Embry became part of the effort with Zanvyl Krieger, whose family owned Gunther Brewery, to bring the National Football League Dallas Texans to Baltimore in 1953 -- and renamed the team the Colts.
Mr. Embry's later sporting interests included the Baltimore Clippers ice hockey team. He co-owned the team with Mr. Krieger and served as its president. The team inaugurated the Baltimore Civic Center -- now the Baltimore Arena -- when it opened in 1962."
We offer a very scarce signed 8x10 photograph that came out of a huge Baltimore Colts scrapbook that was filled with original Colts signed photos from the 1940’s – 60’s. Signed in blue ball point. We’ve never seen another one.
Item: 10865
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