Silicon Valley investors invest in Golden Baseball League

July 10, 2006 | Matt Marshall | Comments | |
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Silicon Valley investors Tim Draper, Terry Garnett and William Del Biaggio III have joined others to back the Golden Baseball League.

They want to make money somehow by employing “rejects from major-league farm teams,” as the story in the NYT tells it.

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  • brian
    why would any baseball fan want to see has-beens, never-wases, and never will-bees? It doesn't matter that the tickets are cheap as the league poses no threat to mlb's ability to recruit genuine high school and college prospects.
  • David
    Mike...c'mon...this was funded 2.5 years ago when the founders were finishing at GSB at Stanford.
  • David, i think you mean "Matt", not Mike. Point taken. I seemed to remember this was a bit old, but point of the post was to link to the NYT story, which shed a lot more details about it.