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Thank you for your interest in the ballclub.
On January 1, 2007 the majority ownership of the team changed
hands and the sales information that had previously been here at this site has
been removed.
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Tom
and Karyn Lininger of Fair Oaks, CA will
succeed Bob and Peter Bavasi as co-managing partners of the Yuba-Sutter Gold
Sox, the Marysville, CA-based collegiate summer league baseball club has
announced.
Bob
Bavasi will remain invested in the Gold Sox. Peter Bavasi will continue
with the ballclub as an advisor to the Liningers.
Tom
Lininger is a well-known Sacramento area attorney and legal affairs commentator,
and an active Little League dad. His law firm, Thomas D. Lininger &
Associates, provides civil litigation and mediation services to clients
throughout Northern California.
Tom
appears regularly as the legal expert on “Good Day Sacramento,”
which airs on CBS-owned television station CW 31, the sister station of CBS 13
in Sacramento. He has been the
program’s legal affairs authority for the past seven years.
Tom
has also provided on-air legal commentary for Sports 1140 / KHTK-AM, the
flagship radio station of the Sacramento
Kings.
Tom
Lininger, 42, is a graduate of Kent State University with a BA in Political
Science. He graduated from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge
School of Law in Sacramento. He is a
member of the State Bar of California, the Sacramento
County Bar Association, the San Francisco
Bar Association, and the Consumer Attorneys of California.
Tom
also serves as a Superior Court Judge Pro Tem in Sacramento
County.
Tom
was born and raised in the small town of Cortland, OH, where his lifelong love
of baseball began as a young and dedicated fan of the nearby Cleveland Indians.
Karyn
Lininger will join husband Tom in managing the Gold Sox operation. Her
focus will be on those aspects of the ballpark environment that are important to
families and children – Fun, food, affordability, service, value, ballpark
cleanliness, and safety.
Karyn,
48, is a certified paralegal and practices at Thomas D. Lininger &
Associates. She is an active volunteer at Twin Lakes Elementary School in
Fair Oaks and, like her husband, has been actively involved with the Fair Oaks
Little League.
Among
Karyn’s other volunteer community interests are the Blood Bank and the Sacramento
Association for the Retarded (SAR), an historic and pioneering advocacy and
family support services agency.
Karyn
was born in Huntingdon, England, north of London.
She has lived in the Sacramento area for more
than 30 years where her father, a career United
States Air Force Flight Engineer, retired from active duty.
The
Lininger family includes three sons. Ryan, 26, has a career in retail
management in Sacramento. Tommy, 13, is
an eighth grade honor roll student and a standout baseball player.
Spencer, 10, is a fourth grade honor roll student and also a top-flight
ballplayer.
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Commenting
on their purchase of the Gold Sox, Tom Lininger said, “Karyn and I love baseball, and so do
our boys. The game is a big part of our lives, as it is with so many Gold
Sox fans.”
Tom
continued, “We feel fortunate to have been chosen by the Bavasis to succeed
them in owning the Gold Sox. We are very pleased that Bob will remain with
us as an invested partner and our chief guide to the baseball business.
And we are delighted that Peter will stay on as our transition advisor.”
“We
share the same beliefs that Bob and Peter hold,” Tom added. “We
believe the Gold Sox belong to the Yuba-Sutter community, and that we are just
caretakers of this wonderful civic asset.”
Commenting
on the sale of the Gold Sox to Tom and Karyn Lininger,
Bob Bavasi, who will remain invested in the Gold Sox as an operating partner,
said, “When we announced our Gold Sox ownership succession plan five months
ago, we said we would seek ‘Someone who shares our vision for the Gold Sox and
our baseball values…someone who believes, as we do, that the Gold Sox are an
important civic asset belonging to the community…and someone who is committed
to the high standards and family values of the Yuba-Sutter community’.”
Bob
concluded, “We found all of those attributes and many more in Tom and Karyn
Lininger.” |
