Emil Fuchs (baseball)

Emil Edwin "Judge" Fuchs (April 17, 1878 – December 5, 1961)[citation needed] was a German-born American baseball owner and executive.

Fuchs was born in Hamburg, Germany to Jewish parents, Hermann and Henrietta,[1] but grew up on the Lower East Side of New York.

[2][3] Fuchs was the attorney for John McGraw's New York Giants when he bought the Boston Braves with Christy Mathewson and James McDonough in 1922.

However, Mathewson's precarious health (he'd suffered a severe case of tuberculosis shortly after World War I and never recovered) forced him to turn over the team presidency to Fuchs after the 1923 season.

When he learned that Babe Ruth's days as a New York Yankee were numbered, Fuchs bought the slugger from Jacob Ruppert.