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Ted Turner Had a Fox Exec Kicked Out of a 1996 World Series Game Because He Was Rooting for the Yankees: TRAINA THOUGHTS

1. Fox is in the middle of its 25th year of airing Major League Baseball's postseason. To celebrate the occasion, Sports Business Journal put together a fun oral history on Fox's acquiring the rights to MLB in 1996 and airing its first World Series ever between the Yankees and Braves.

Yankees haters might not enjoy the piece because Fox executives admit throughout it that they root hard for the Bronx Bombers to win because it's good for business.

One of the better anecdotes in the oral history is about former Braves owner Ted Turner getting a Fox executive booted out of Game 4 of the World Series because the executive was openly rooting for the Yankees in Atlanta's stadium.