Word: ilitch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...none of those extravagances really made him happy. So in 1989 Monaghan took a two-year leave from Domino's to devote himself to Catholic charities and soon began to dump his toys. (The Tigers went to Little Caesars owner Michael Ilitch in 1992 for $85 million.) "Most of the time I was buying things to get attention, to have people notice me," Monaghan once remarked. "That's the sin of pride, the worst sin of all, and I'm the guiltiest person...
...team cities to find gold in the West and South, have owners been so restless. Some get bored and take the pocket money, as Domino's pizza king Tom Monaghan did last week when he sold his Detroit Tigers for about $80 million to a rival pizza pasha, Mike Ilitch of Little Caesars. And some owners just feel like raising hell. Al Davis, keeper of those movable beasts the Oakland -- no, the L.A. -- Raiders, flirted shamelessly with upstate bigwigs who thought he might return to the Bay Area. By doing so, Davis won a sweeter deal...