List of female Major League Baseball principal owners

Since the beginning of Major League Baseball, women have rarely held high executive positions in team franchises.

As a result, there have been fourteen women who have held the controlling stakes of a franchise in the league's history.

Marge Schott was the first woman to purchase a Major League franchise when she bought the Cincinnati Reds in 1984.

Additionally, a number of women have inherited the team upon the death of a family member but delegated the business of running to someone else.

For instance, Edith Dunn, the wife of Cleveland Indians owner Jim Dunn, was the first woman in the American League and second overall to own a franchise but did not take part in its day-to-day operations, instead letting general manager Ernest Barnard run the team until she sold it upon remarrying in 1927.