John Henry

After acquiring a fortune in the early 1980s from his trading firm J.W. Henry & Co., John Henry started building a sports empire.Henry and his partner Tom Werner bought the Boston Red Sox in 2002 for $380 million and delivered the Sox' first World Series win in 86 years in 2004.Their Fenway Sports Group holds the majority stake in New England Sports Network, Nascar's Roush Fenway Racing and British soccer club Liverpool FC.Henry bought the Boston Globe in 2013 for $70 million and in 2017 moved the 145-year-old newspaper back to downtown Boston where it was first founded.