When I first heard this, I thought what, he's at it
again?
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=17941A baseball angel from way out of left field?
Records indicate that promoter’s biography pinch-hits for the truth
By ANDY GIEGERICH Issue date: 5/2/2003 The Tribune
Big-league baseball supporters say they’re skeptical about a Florida man who thinks he can find investors for a privately funded Portland baseball stadium.
Among the issues: Craig Marquardo, owner of Fathom Motion Picture Co. in Hollywood, Fla., boasts of a colorful past packed with tough-to-verify claims.
Specifically, he says he played minor-league baseball in 1990, sang backup with the pop singer Sting at the age of 15 and was wounded in Iraq on an assignment after the Persian Gulf War.
Marquardo’s past comes under question as he prepares a package that he says would privately finance a new stadium (cost: at least $450 million, with a roof) and the purchase of a team (asking price for the Montreal Expos is somewhere between $150 million and $200 million).
“It’s obvious that Mr. Marquardo isn’t all that he claims to be,” said David Kahn, the Oregon Stadium Campaign’s president. “Having spoken to him on a couple of occasions, it’s obvious also that he has no understanding of transactions of this kind in the sports arena.”
Marquardo emerged as state legislators consider a bill that would fund $150 million of a new stadium’s cost by using income taxes from team employees.
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