Below is my rating in order best to worst of the owners of the Baltimore and Washington sports teams:
1) Abe Pollin – Bullets – 1964 – 2009. He won a NBA Title. He was in the finals a few times between Baltimore and Washington. He brought basketball to the Washington area. More than that, he was offered a much sweeter deal to move back to Baltimore but loved DC and built an arena in Chinatown and revitalized the whole area.
2) Abe Pollin – Capitals – 1974 – 1998. Started a Washington hockey team for the first time. See above for other contributions to DC, the city he loved.
3) Jerold Hoffberger – Orioles 1965 – 1979. Tickets were cheap and best run organization in all of sports at the time.
4) Jack Kent Cooke – Redskins 1980 – 1996. Let the football people make the decisions which resulted in 4 Super Bowl Appearances with 3 wins.
5) Edward Bennet Williams – Redskins 1969 – 1974. Hired Vince Lombardi and George Allen. First time Redskins won in many years. I Super Bowl appearance.
6) Ted Lerner – Nationals 2006 – 2017. Had to rebuild a team that was raped by MLB and won consistently from 2012 – 2017.
7) Clark Griffith – Senators 1920 – 1955. Won a world Series in 1924 and pennant in 1933.
Ted Leonsis – Capitals – 1999 – present. Won the Stanley Cup 2018. Kept the Great8 in DC his whole career. Tried to move the Capitals to Virginia but failed.
9) Edward Bennet Williams Orioles 1980 – 1988 – Had some exciting teams in the early 80’s. Tickets were still cheap. Originally wanted to move the Orioles to Washington but couldn’t when Baltimore built him Camden Yards.
10) Elwood Richard Quesada – Senators 1961 – 1962. Not bad or good, was just there.
11) James Johnston and James Lemon – Senators 1963 – 1967. Sold to Bob Short otherwise just there.
12) Mark Lerner – Nationals – 2018 – Present. Hasn’t won but isn’t as bad as the ones behind him.
13) Ted Leonsis – Wizards – 2010 – present. – Hasn’t won anything. Tried to move to Virginia and abandon Chinatown which Abe Pollin made a destination in DC.
14) John Angelos – Orioles 2020 – 2023. First of the despicable 6. Did finally make progress in MASN settlement but had to be dragged the whole way.
15) Peter Angelos – Orioles 1993 – 2020. Second despicable. Did everything he could to keep Washington from getting a team. Wouldn’t pay Nationals what they were due in MASN.
16) George Preston Marshall – despicable 3. Redskins 1937 – 1969. Lost horribly. Would have been above the Angelos family but he really was a prejudiced human being.
17) Dan Snyder – 1999 – 2023 – despicable 4. Terrible in many ways. Made the Redskins/Commanders the laughing stock of the league. He’s above the two below him because he didn’t move the team out of DC area.
18) Bob Short – Senators – 1969 – 1971. – Despicable 5. Stinks. Terrible owner. Made baseball decisions. Moved the team to Texas. He should never of been allowed to buy the Senators. Didn’t have the money.
19) Calvin Griffith – Senators 1955 – 1960. Despicable 6. Moved the Senators to Minnesota. Terrible person. Drank too much and was prejudiced
