White Sox vice chairman Eddie Einhorn died Tuesday night in New Jersey from complications following a stroke, according to a team news release. He was 80.
Einhorn has served as the team's vice chairman for the past 25 years. Before that, he was the team's president and chief operating officer from 1981-90.
Einhorn was the founder and chairman of TVS Television Network, a leader of sports programming in the 1970s. He is credited with helping the growth of college basketball on television and was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011 for his role in catapulting the sport into national prominence.
"Eddie was a creative whirlwind whose ideas -- many of them far ahead of
their time -- changed the landscape of sports, and sports on
television, forever," White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said in the release. "He was a man of many interests,
projects, ideas and opinions, and we all will miss him dearly. It is
exceedingly rare in this day and age to have enjoyed a friendship and a
working partnership that lasted our lifetimes. We celebrated many great
moments together."
The White Sox will honor Einhorn by wearing a sleeve patch during the regular season.
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