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Frank H. McCourt (born August 14, 1953) is an American businessman, president of the McCourt Group and owner of the Los Angeles Marathon. He was owner and chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine from 2004 to 2012. In , he purchased a controlling interest of the Dodgers from Fox Entertainment Group, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Prior to purchasing the Dodgers and moving to Los Angeles, McCourt was a Boston real estate developer, whose family resided in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 2013, he donated $100 million to establish the McCourt School of Public Policy, the ninth school of Georgetown University. ==Early years and business background== McCourt was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was raised Roman Catholic and attended Georgetown University where he earned an economics degree in 1975. He met his future wife, Jamie McCourt, when they were both freshmen at Georgetown. They married in 1979. The McCourt family has a long association with real estate and construction in the Boston area. In 1977, Frank McCourt founded The McCourt Company, which specializes in the development of major commercial real estate projects, particularly parking lots.〔 In the late 1970s McCourt acquired in South Boston from the bankrupt Penn Central railroad and developed the L-shaped property into parking lots. That property is located here: The McCourt company headquarters moved to Los Angeles in 2004 in connection with the family relocating to Los Angeles. The McCourts owned a $16 million, home in Brookline, MA that was acquired by John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank McCourt (executive)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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