Charlie Finley

Charles Oscar Finley (February 22, 1918 - February 19, 1996) was an American businessman who enjoyed a tenure as the flamboyant owner of the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team. Finley was a semi-pro baseball player in Indiana who had his career cut short in 1946 by a bout with tuberculosis that nearly killed him. Finley then made his fortune in the insurance business, being among the first to write group medical insurance policies for those in the medical profession.