John McMullen is a hero to the Devils faithful. He’s the man who brought the Colorado Rockies to New Jersey, but another man from the Tr-State Area almost bought it out from under him – New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. His interest led to a couple strange and stressful weeks in the spring of 1982.
Some Background
The Colorado Rockies were hemorrhaging money two years into their stay in Denver. Arthur Imperatore, a trucking magnate who’d later go on to found NY Waterway ferry service, bought the team in the summer of 1978. He planned on moving the team to New Jersey in 1980 upon the opening of a new arena in the Meadowlands.