{"id":212503,"date":"2026-04-28T11:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212503\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:54:08","slug":"john-catsimatidis-now-managing-partner-of-staten-island-ferryhawks-baseball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212503\/","title":{"rendered":"John Catsimatidis Now Managing Partner of Staten Island FerryHawks Baseball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Greek-American billionaire John Catsimatidis was featured in the New York Post for \u201cadding Atlantic League managing partner to his resume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Staten Island FerryHawks are affiliated with the New York Yankees and their opening weekend began on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a wonderful day,\u201d Catsimatidis, who is a longtime fan of the Yankees-affiliated team, told the Post on April 24. \u201cWhen the Yankees called me up about four years ago and they wanted to be partners \u2013 I said absolutely yes, I love baseball. My grandfather took me to my first Yankee game when I was about six or eight years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Catsimatidis \u201cwas a key investor in the team when it launched in 2022, replacing the<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island Yankees, which shut down operations in 2020,\u201d the Post reported, adding that \u201cthe FerryHawks home base is Staten Island University Hospital Community Park, located off of the Staten Island Ferry stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564698\" class=\"size-large wp-image-564698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Staten-Island-FerryHawks-919x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"919\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Staten Island FerryHawks opener was held on April 24. Photo: Instagram<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1990 during Rudy Giuliani\u2019s tenure as New York City Mayor, the stadium was renovated \u201cafter its ownership change in 2022,\u201d the Post reported, noting that<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCatsimatidis said he hopes to eventually name it the WABC stadium after his radio station, and plans to expand the site\u2019s offerings to include concerts, festivals and a soccer team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make it a full entertainment facility,\u201d he told the Post, and \u201ceven floated the idea of a minor league spinoff of the MLB\u2019s Yankees and Mets Subway Series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have the Mets minor league team the Coney Island Cyclones and you have the FerryHawks, which is a Yankee associated team,\u201d Catsimatidis told the Post. \u201cWe should have a series of a competition between the Cyclones and the FerryHawks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2013 Greek-American billionaire John Catsimatidis was featured in the New York Post for \u201cadding Atlantic League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-212503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}