• Joan Whitney Payson (February 5, 1903 – October 4, 1975) was an American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector...
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  • death of his wife, Mets founder Joan Whitney. Payson was born on October 16, 1898, in Maine. He was the son of Herbert Payson and Sally Carroll Brown, grandson...
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  • required to purchase the franchise), after New York Mets founder Joan Whitney Payson. She was banned from managing the team by MLB in 1993 due to racist...
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  • Joan Whitney may refer to: Joan Whitney Payson, heiress and New York Mets owner Joan Whitney (actress) Joan Whitney Kramer, American singer and songwriter...
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    two children: Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975), who was the first owner of the New York Mets Major League Baseball team. John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), who...
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  • (1893–1927), American botanist Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975), American businesswoman and New York Mets owner Phillips Payson (1704–1778), American minister...
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    the New York Mets of Major League Baseball, succeeding her mother, Joan Whitney Payson, in the role upon her mother's death in 1975, and serving until 1980...
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    Hassler Whitney (1907–1989) Henry Melville Whitney (1839–1923) James Scollay Whitney (1811–1878) Joan Whitney Payson (1903–1975) John Hay Whitney (1905–1982)...
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  • 1928) 1975 – Friedrich Lutz, German economist (b. 1901) 1975 – Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903) 1977 – José...
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    George Christopher. Despite objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San...
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  • (1980–1990). The Mets owner is currently Steve Cohen. Joan Whitney Payson (1962–1975) Charles Shipman Payson (1975–1980) Doubleday & Co. (1980–1986) Nelson Doubleday...
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    Joseph (October 5, 1975). "Joan Whitney Payson, 72, Mets Owner, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved March 6, 2017. "JOHN HAY WHITNEY DIES AT 77; PUBLISHER...
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    Irises Vincent van Gogh 1889 November 11, 1987 1 John Whitney Payson, son of Joan Whitney Payson Alan Bond Sotheby's, New York $143.9 $95.2 Dora Maar au...
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    owned majority stakes of an MLB franchise without inheriting it. Joan Whitney Payson, previously a minority owner of the New York Giants, was the first...
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  • Whitney Foundation, established in New York in 1943 by Joan Whitney Payson in cooperation with the estate planning of her mother, Helen Hay Whitney (1875–1944)...
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  • Manhasset Stable (category Whitney family residences)
    the early 1930s by Joan Whitney Payson, founder of the New York Mets baseball team and a member of the prominent New York City Whitney family who have been...
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    Conn." Reif, Rita. "The Paysons' home on view", The New York Times, April 27, 1984. Accessed November 12, 2007. "JOAN WHITNEY PAYSON, the ebullient, highly...
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    and the Mets fell into last place for several years. In January 1980, the Payson heirs sold the Mets franchise to the Doubleday publishing company for $21...
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  • computer. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Joan Whitney Payson Gallery (Portland Maine), the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Princeton...
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  • "Joan Whitney Payson: A Pioneer for the New York Mets – Society for American Baseball Research". Retrieved February 2, 2024. admin. "Joan Whitney Payson:...
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    from 1905 to 1912, when it was sold to a German collector. In 1952, Joan Whitney Payson bought the painting in New York for $60,000. When she died in 1975...
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  • came under Allied fire. Whitney inherited his family's love of horses, a predilection he shared with his sister, Joan Whitney Payson. Jock and his sister...
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    to the collection. In 1991, the Joan Whitney Payson Collection (owned by Charles Payson's wife Joan Whitney, a Whitney family heiress and New York City...
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    popular as a venue for debutante balls, including those in honor of Joan Whitney Payson and Cathleen Vanderbilt. The rebuilt ballroom hosted social benefits...
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    Walker Jr., the cofounder of the New York Mets baseball team with Joan Whitney Payson. His first cousin, George Herbert Walker Bush, served as the President...
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  • team in New York City. Majority interest was held by Joan Whitney Payson and Charles Shipman Payson, former minority owners of the Giants. The second largest...
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  • (Houston), Wheelock Whitney Jr. (Minneapolis–St. Paul), Dwight F. Davis, Jr., who was representing the group headed by Joan Whitney Payson (New York), and...
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    Stanley C. Norton, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and Navy Cross recipient Joan Whitney Payson, philanthropist, noted art collector David D. Pearce, US ambassador...
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  • racehorse bred and raced by the Greentree Stable of Joan Whitney Payson and her brother, John Hay Whitney. One Hitter was sired by Shut Out, the Greentree...
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  • a team which he co-founded in 1960 (and began play in 1962) with Joan Whitney Payson. He married Mary Carter (20 November 1905 – 5 September 1998) on...
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