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Liverpool can see hope in post-Hicks baseball tale
ARLINGTON, Texas (AFP) – Liverpool football supporters hoping to be rid of owner Tom Hicks can take heart from a success story going on in US Major League Baseball by a team Hicks once owned that rallied after bankruptcy.
The Texas Rangers are set to face the reigning World Series champion New York Yankees in the best-of-seven American League championship series starting on Saturday, after the first play-off series triumph since the club's 1961 debut.
In September, the Rangers sealed their first play-off berth since 1999 and on Tuesday they ousted Tampa Bay to advance for the first time.
Barely two months after escaping bankruptcy, the club Hicks bought for 250 million dollars in 1998 from a group that included soon-to-become US President George W. Bush is now four victories shy of reaching its first World Series.
Hicks and partner George Gillett are fighting the sale of Liverpool to the owners of the Boston Red Sox, claiming the price tag is too low despite angry protests from Liverpool fans desperate for them to leave the club.
Hicks, who last year was identified by Forbes magazine as being worth more than one billion dollars, saw the Rangers enter bankruptcy in May and escape in August after being sold for 591 million dollars to a group led by former Rangers star pitcher Nolan Ryan.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AFP) – Liverpool football supporters hoping to be rid of owner Tom Hicks can take heart from a success story going on in US Major League Baseball by a team Hicks once owned that rallied after bankruptcy.
The Texas Rangers are set to face the reigning World Series champion New York Yankees in the best-of-seven American League championship series starting on Saturday, after the first play-off series triumph since the club's 1961 debut.
In September, the Rangers sealed their first play-off berth since 1999 and on Tuesday they ousted Tampa Bay to advance for the first time.
Barely two months after escaping bankruptcy, the club Hicks bought for 250 million dollars in 1998 from a group that included soon-to-become US President George W. Bush is now four victories shy of reaching its first World Series.
Hicks and partner George Gillett are fighting the sale of Liverpool to the owners of the Boston Red Sox, claiming the price tag is too low despite angry protests from Liverpool fans desperate for them to leave the club.
Hicks, who last year was identified by Forbes magazine as being worth more than one billion dollars, saw the Rangers enter bankruptcy in May and escape in August after being sold for 591 million dollars to a group led by former Rangers star pitcher Nolan Ryan.
