Nintendo's weirdest investment ever: THIS COST MILLIONS!

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Published on January 7, 2020 5:55:56 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voU2vQmMjhQ

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In 1992, Nintendo put in $100,000,000 to buy the Seattle Mariners baseball team. But what was the reason for this bizarre-sounding purchase? Let us find out!

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SOURCES
- https://www.knkx.org/post/hiroshi-yamauchi-mystery-man-who-saved-baseball-seattle [ART THIEL RADIO COMMENTARY]
- https://mlblogsraysrenegade.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/pondering-what-almost-happened-for-tampa-bay-in-1992/ [MARINERS ALMOST MOVED TO TAMPA]
- https://www.nbr.org/event/twenty-fifth-anniversary-celebration-of-senator-slade-gorton-saving-the-seattle-mariners/ [BEST XMAS GIFT]
- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1k-6ksl3uLsC&lpg=PT96&ots=x1-j3-zdH3&dq=slade%20Gorton%20nintendo&pg=PT96#v=onepage&q=slade%20Gorton%20nintendo&f=false [GEORGE W BUSH INVOLVEMENT]
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19917562/ns/technology_and_science-games/t/seattle-fans-can-take-ds-out-ballgame/ [DS APP]
- https://www.polygon.com/2016/8/22/12584458/nintendo-seattle-mariners-sale-661-million [NINTENDO SELLS MARINERS]

CREDITS
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ityYtA9H61s [MARINERS FOOTAGE]
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcYBXp_u1UQ [NINTENDO FAN NETWORK FOOTAGE]
- https://www.epidemicsound.com/referral/lxx3b0/ [MUSIC]

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