In 2020, Steve Cohen paid $2.4 billion for the New York Mets; the team had sold for just $21.1 million back in 1980

The New York Mets changed hands twice in four decades, with each sale reflecting a different era of baseball ownership. In January 1980, publisher Doubleday & Co.

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