Phil Auten

Phil Auten was a controlling owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team of the National League from 1893 through 1900 with William Kerr. Prior to their connection with the Pirates, Auten and Kerr were stockholders of the Pittsburgh Burghers of the Players' League in that league's only season in 1890.[1] In early 1893, the two men gained a controlling interest in Pittsburgh's NL club (which had absorbed and merged ownership with the defunct PL club) when they and manager Al Buckenberger bought out the stock of William Chase Temple.[2] Auten and Kerr sold their majority share of the Pirates to Barney Dreyfuss prior to the 1901 season.[3]

References
  1. "It Looks Brighter". The Pittsburg Dispatch. 11 November 1890. p. 6.
  2. "That Mysterious Deal". The Pittsburgh Post. 24 January 1893. p. 6.
  3. "Barney Dreyfuss Now in Control". The Pittsburg Post. 19 February 1901. p. 6.


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