
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, July 30, 1990                   TAG: 9007300223
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: SAN DIEGO                                LENGTH: Short

KROC TRIED TO GIVE PADRES TO CITY

The former owner of the San Diego Padres tried to give the franchise to the city of San Diego, but dropped the proposal after a baseball owners' committee declined to consider the plan.

Joan B. Kroc finally sold the club for $75 million to a 15-member group that included 11 San Diego investors. She declined to discuss her earlier attempt to give the club to the city, along with a $100 million trust fund to operate the franchise.

But Mayor Maureen O'Connor, a close friend of Kroc's, confirmed that the former owner approached her with the idea last fall.

by CNB