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Philip Knight Wrigley (December 5, 1894 – April 12, 1977) was an American chewing gum manufacturer and a Major League Baseball executive, inheriting both of those roles as the quiet son of his much more flamboyant father, William Wrigley Jr.
Jan 8, 2012 · Philip Knight Wrigley owned the Chicago Cubs from 1932 until his death in 1977. During that time, he brought baseball the infamous “college of coaches,” founded the revolutionary All-American Girls Baseball League, maintained Wrigley Field as one of the great stadiums in all of sports, and — to the despair of Cubs’ fans ...
Industry: Food & Tobacco. Era: 1920. In addition to continuing the success of the chewing gum products, PK Wrigley greatly improved labor relations at the firm, instituting an “income insurance” plan, a gradual retirement program, and an extensive pension system.
Jun 15, 2019 · Philip K. Wrigley was selling sex and Americana 1943 was a time of unity, when Americans banded together in support of the European and Pacific theater struggles. Wrigley wanted his AAGPBL...
Philip K. Wrigley, chewing gum magnate and owner of the Chicago Cubs was the father of the AAGPBL. As an entreprenuer, Wrigley envisioned placing women’s softball teams in major league parks when the War Department notified baseball owners in the fall of 1942 that Major League Baseball would probably have to suspend play in the spring and ...
Apr 13, 1977 · Philip K. Wrigley, the chairman of the company that sold billions of sticks of chewing gum a year and the owner of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, died yesterday in an Elkhorn, Wis., hospital.
Dec 6, 1994 · Philip K. Wrigley, who owned the Cubs for five decades, was a man of few words. He was never on radio or television and made only two public speeches in his life. In accepting an award at the...
