{"id":125706,"date":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125706\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:26","slug":"major-slu-donor-alum-buys-interest-in-san-francisco-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125706\/","title":{"rendered":"Major SLU donor, alum buys interest in San Francisco Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; A major mover and shaker in Saint Louis University (SLU) athletics is buying a piece of an MLB franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Richard Chaifetz, the chairman of the Chaifetz Group, has purchased a piece of the San Francisco Giants, the Chaifetz Group announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cI am proud to become part of the ownership group of the San Francisco Giants. This is an iconic franchise, led by a team of outstanding executives and owners,\u201d Chaifetz said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Chaifetz is a 1975 graduate of SLU. Chaifetz Arena, the home of SLU Basketball, was named for him. He donated $12 million to the arena project, according to SLU Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Chaifetz also owns the St. Louis Shock in Major League Pickleball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KMOV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) &#8211; A major mover and shaker in Saint Louis University (SLU) athletics&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[65304,65307,65306,65305,10897,13568,16261,101,103,102,104,106,105,65303],"class_list":["post-125706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-alum","tag-buy","tag-chaifetz","tag-donot","tag-giants","tag-piece","tag-richard","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-slu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}