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Nintendo once owned a baseball team

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When you have massive stacks of Super Mario money, you can pretty much buy whatever you want. In 1992, Nintendo's president bought a majority stake in the struggling MLB team just as a gesture of goodwill to the Seattle community where Nintendo of America was headquartered. They held onto the team until 2016, making it the weirdest crossover in corporate sports history.

Nintendo once owned a baseball team
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