Jerry Wolman
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Jerry Wolman (b. Shenandoah, Pennsylvania) was a Washington, D.C. developer and the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles football team of the National Football League. Wolman bought the Eagles franchise in 1963 for a sale price of $5,505,000.
He was also one of the founding owners, briefly in 1967, of the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. Over the next two years, his $100-million financial empire crumbled into bankruptcy, and he was forced to give up his interests in both teams. In 1967, he sold his Flyers interest to his co-owners, with Ed Snider assuming control. In 1969, he sold the Eagles to Leonard Tose for a reported $16.1 million, then a record price for a professional sports team.
Wolman is a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame; one of its chapters is named after him.
Wolman had also initiated the development of the John Hancock Center, a 110-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, but was forced off the project because of his financial difficulties.
Wolman now lives happily in Potomac, Maryland, is a father of 2 and a grandfather of 7.
He has taken over and reconstructed a water company in Ellicott City, Maryland. He is slowly turning it into one of the largest water distributors in Maryland.
| Preceded by 65 stockholders |
Philadelphia Eagles Owners 1963–1969 |
Succeeded by Leonard Tose |
