Baseball Digest gets new owner — its third in 79 years

Norm Jacobs, who took over Baseball Digest in 1969, has sold the 79-year-old publication to his minority partner.

Jacobs is 88 and a silent partner with Jerry Reinsdorf in the syndicate that owns the Chicago Bulls. The new ownership is Pro Scouts LLC, headed by associate publisher David Fagley, who bought a minority stake from Jacobs in 2011. The bi-monthly publication had taken the unusual step of putting its entire archives online for free when Major League Baseball and all pro sports shut down in late March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.