Mark Attanasio
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"Mark L. Attanasio" is a Los Angeles businessman and owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. In September 2004, he reached a deal, on behalf of an investment group, to purchase the Milwaukee Brewers from the family of Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig for United States dollar/US$200 million. The deal was approved by MLB at the owners' winter meeting on January 13, 2005.

He is a senior executive with the money management firms TCW/Crescent Mezzanine and Trust Company of the West.

File:Ryan Braun Accepts Silver Slugger April 2012.jpg/thumb/left/Attanasio (center) presenting a 2011 Silver Slugger Award to Ryan Braun

Attanasio was born on September 29, 1957 in The Bronx, New York and grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey, where he attended high school. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. in 1979 and received his Juris Doctor/J.D. from Columbia University/Columbia Law School in 1982. He founded the Dallas, Texas/Dallas investment firm Crescent Capital Partners in 1991, which was later bought by Trust Company of the West in 1995. In 2001, Attanasio joined the board of directors at the telecommunications firm Global Crossing, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2002. He resigned his position on the board shortly thereafter.

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It is a very, very complicated decision.

[As the accolades continue to mount for Attanasio, he's quick to credit his team. Attanasio calls Yost a great motivator and says Yost's attitude and expectations have set the mission for the year.] Ned said from the very first meeting with the players, 'Now is the time to produce,' ... He started with the players from the very first day in spring training and I've heard h.

We don't want to change the integrity of the game.

My expectations, I'm sure along with the expectations of the community, have been raised as a result of what we've done this year.

It's been a priority for me that the fan experience be optimal, ... One of the things I've found traveling with the team to different cities is that we do give a good experience.

I don't want Doug Melvin with money burning a hole in his pocket, ... We're already scouting free agents for next year. But we are not getting free agents if it's not the right fit.

When you work on something like that you, you try to work on the whole, so it's all under discussion now in terms of financial terms and length and all that, ... But it will definitely be a meaningful extension. Doug has done an unbelievable job. I think everybody here recognizes that.

New owner of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Our goal was to offer something unprecedented to the greatest baseball fans in America. The people of the state of Wisconsin continue to show tremendous passion for the Brewers, and this is our gesture to thank them for their incredible support in my first year as owner.