Tom Hicks
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Tom Hicks
Thomas Ollis "Tom" Hicks, Sr., is an American 'leveraged buyout' businessman living in Dallas, Texas. Despite Forbes magazine estimating Hicks' wealth at $1 billion in 2009, Hicks was unable to pay off joint loans of circa £200 million the following year. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, previously owned 50% of the English football club Liverpool F.C., and is chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, which owns and operates Hicks Sports Group, the company that formerly owned the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
We're trying to put ourselves in the best position to win, period, if not this year, next year.
The best thing we can do is develop our own.
We want to build with a core of great young players that we have and by adding to that core with the pieces we need to become a champion.
Pitching is a priority.
Baseball is all about pitching, and we know we have to improve our pitching.