Delbert Eugene "Del" Webb (May 17, 1899 – July 4, 1974) was an American real-estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club. He founded and developed the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, which was built by his Del E. …

Jul 23, 2010 · But just as the game was changing—and with expansion and a player draft leaving the Yankees no longer able to claim so many of the best players in the land—Webb cashed in and left town before...

In January 1945 Webb purchased an interest in the New York Yankees, America’s preeminent sports franchise, for a war-depressed, bargain-basement price. Three years later, Webb, along with Dan Topping, acquired full ownership of the team as equal partners.

May 27, 2011 · At one time he was part owner of the New York Yankees. Del E Webb wanted to be a baseball player, but grew to own one of America's best known construction and development companies. Webb was born in California in 1899 and died in 1974.

Del Webb works even when he plays. The New York Yankees, which he bought with Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail for $2,800,000 in 1945 (he and Topping bought out MacPhail’s interest for...

Throughout the 1920s, young Webb roamed the western United States as a part-time carpenter and semi-pro baseball player. In 1945, he would become co-owner of the New York Yankees. During the 20 seasons Webb and his partners owned the Yankees, the team won 15 pennants and 10 World Series championships.

Mar 16, 2015 · The man responsible for this growth is Del Webb. Webb was a developer who truly made his bones with World War II contracts, most infamously the contracts to build the internment camps which imprisoned Japanese-Americans during the war because of some combination of fear, hatred and racial paranoia.

Aug 27, 2019 · Del Webb became part owner of the New York Yankees in 1945, when he was part of a group that purchased the team from the estate of the late Jacob Ruppert. The group, which also included Dan Topping and Larry MacPhail, sold the club to CBS in November 1964.

Delbert Eugene "Del" Webb (May 17, 1899 – July 4, 1974) was an American real-estate developer and a co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball club. He founded and developed the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, which was built by his Del E. …

An avid baseball player, Webb — who grew up in California and would later own the New York Yankees — had a promising career until he fell ill with typhoid fever. He moved to the Phoenix metropolitan area in 1928 for the dry climate, and began working as a carpenter.