{"id":266278,"date":"2021-06-04T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/baseball-digest-gets-new-owner-its-third-in-79-years\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T02:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:44:48","slug":"baseball-digest-gets-new-owner-its-third-in-79-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/baseball-digest-gets-new-owner-its-third-in-79-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Baseball Digest gets new owner \u2014 its third in 79 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Baseball Digest gets new owner \u2014 its third in 79 years<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Norm Jacobs, who took over Baseball Digest in 1969, has sold the 79-year-old publication to his minority partner. <\/p>\n

Jacobs is 88 and a silent partner with Jerry Reinsdorf in the syndicate that owns the Chicago Bulls. The new ownership is Pro Scouts LLC, headed by associate publisher David Fagley, who bought a minority stake from Jacobs in 2011.<\/p>\n

The bi-monthly publication had taken the unusual step of putting its entire archives online for free when Major League Baseball and all pro sports shut down in late March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Jacobs said at time he was unlocking the archives \u201cto help fill the void until we can all return to the ballpark.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demand was so great that it crashed the servers of eMagazines, which was handling the fulfillment, recalled Jake Zimmerman, the general<\/a> manager who also has a minority stake in the new ownership of the magazine. To keep it open, Baseball Digest had to bring the management in-house.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt cost us a lot of money, but people came by the hordes\u201d he said. \u201cSome people wrote us to say, \u2018Thank you \u2014 you saved my life\u2019,\u201d Zimmerman said. <\/p>\n

When MLB decided to start playing again in July, BD\u2019s archives went behind a paywall for $9.95 a year. Nearly half of those who used the archives for free during the four-month MLB hiatus signed up for a one-year subscript<\/a>ion to the archives when play resumed, he said. <\/p>\n

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Baseball great Roberto Clemente appearing on the cover of Baseball Digest\u2019s December 1972 issue. The magazine is only now getting its third owner in its 79-year history.<\/figcaption>
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Jacobs had taken over in 1969 from founder Herb Simmons, a former Chicago Daily News<\/a> baseball writer who launched it 1942. When Jacobs took over it was still a black-and-white digest sized magazine selling for 35 cents, but when he brought Fagley on as a partner in 2011, the magazine expanded to a full sized magazine and went to color.<\/p>\n

Zimmerman said there were no layoffs throughout the pandemic and it continued to print every other month. \u201cWe published through World War II,\u201d he said, \u201cWe were not going to let the pandemic stop us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick Cerrone, who was the longtime editor-in-chief, remains on the job. <\/p>\n

Jacobs\u2019 company, Century Sports, at one time included\u00a020 magazines, including Football Digest, Hockey Digest, Auto Racing Digest, Inside Sports and even Bowling Digest. <\/p>\n

\u201cI sold or closed most of them over the years,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Last year, he sold the mailing list for other remaining Cruise Travel<\/a> Magazine to Travel\u00a0+ Leisure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m 88 going on 89,\u201d said Jacobs. \u201cI think it\u2019s time to pack it in and spend more time on the golf course.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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