Milt Glickman

After the Milwaukee Braves moved their farm club from Wichita in 1958, the city was without professional baseball for eleven years.  Local scrap metal dealer Milt Glickman headed a group of investors who formed the Wichita Aeros, a AAA team.  

Over the next fourteen years, the Aeros were affiliated with Cleveland, the Chicago Cubs, Texas, Montreal and Cincinnati.  They won one division title, in 1972.  

When Glickman sold the Aeros in 1984, he was the only investor remaining and had absorbed losses of more than a million dollars.  

Glickman died in 1999. His son Dan is a former United States congressman.