Tuesday, October 03, 2000
Major League Baseball v. Frank L. Morsani

No.96,004

Hillsborough County


This dispute arose from failed attempts to bring the Minnesota Twins baseball team to the Tampa Bay area. Morsani and others were involved in the matter but contend that their efforts to secure the team failed by 1984. Major League Baseball contends that Morsani and the others actively frustrated the deal. In 1992, Major League Baseball sued Morsani and the others, who moved to dismiss on grounds that the 4-year statute of limitations had expired. Major League Baseball argued that the statute did not apply because Morsani and the others had continued to promise to help bring an existing major league team or an expansion team to Tampa Bay, thereby inducing it not to sue. The trial court dismissed the claim but, on appeal, the Second District Court reversed.