Former Pirates Co-Owner Dies

WHEELING, WV — Newspaper publisher G. Ogden Nutting, whose investment in the Pirates in 1996 helped keep the team in Pittsburgh and led to his son taking control of the team in 2007, has died.

Nutting died Friday at the age of 87, the Intelligencer and Wheeling News Register reported on Monday.

Nutting was part of a group of more than two dozen investors that former Pirates owner Kevin McClatchy assembled to buy the Pirates in 1996. There was urgency to the purchase, as a rival group wanted to buy the Bucs and move them to Washington, D.C.

As members of the investment group began to pull out, the Nuttings purchased their shares until they had a majority stake in the team. Nutting's son, Bob, became the franchise's principal owner in 2007.

Nutting was the longtime publisher of Ogden Newspapers Inc. and spent more than 60 years in various roles with the company company. According to the company's website Ogden has 113 newspaper and various other publications.