Deals
MLB Streaming Arm Sued by Former Executive Over Disney Sale
- John Dinn Mann says he was promised stake worth $80 million
- Mann says he helped build unit from a ’fledgling start up’
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As Major League Baseball begins a new season, a former executive is calling foul on the organization’s interactive media and internet company.
John Dinn Mann claims in a lawsuit that over 17 years he helped build MLB Advanced Media from a “fledgling startup” into a “media juggernaut,” but was shut out of promised profits when the majority of the unit was sold to Walt Disney Co. for $2.6 billion.