I'd like to know where that number came from. I don't know either, but I've seen more than one article trying to guess and most estimate he was in the several hundred million dollar range. I really don't know what he's worth but he never ever comes up on any billionaire lists either.

Although I think the Royals are worth $600-700 million now, so he is likely a billionaire because of that. But that's different than just having a billion dollars in cash laying around.

Dude, I know people that have said he's been a billionaire for two decades. He keeps in on the down low but people know.

He wasn't even close when he bought the Royals. I worked doing due diligence for a group that made a (higher) competing offer for the Royals when they were for sale. He wasn't worth half a billion back then.

Free agency has doomed jersey sales (from me at least).

I won't buy another one from an active player.

Finally broke down and bought a Charles jersey this year. We all saw how that turned out.

He's the Chiefs all-time rushing leader. He belongs in the Hall of Fame some day. I think you are good no matter what on that one.

With people laughing at you for being a grown man wearing a jersey with another man's name on it?

Rany did an article on Glass's net worth in 2008.
http://www.ranyontheroyals.com/2008/12/glass.html
His quotes are from the KC Pitch and KC Star.

1992 Businessweek article put him at 82 million
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/...not-sam-walton

It's okay. I did my due diligence and asked everyone. Seemed only people who had low self esteem and small peckers had an issue with it.

$323 million at the time he bought the Royals is pretty accurate.

Gordon put the team on his back and hit one over the wall dead center field after hosmer shit the bed with an error. That gets overlooked quite often. Could have been an entirely different series without that Gordon blast

Whoever is overlooking that should go a week without trousers.

I don't doubt your story but what this tells me is that there were a whole lot of tall tales being told.

I had heard he was a billionaire somewhere around 2003 and that article I linked had him at $1.8 a decade later. This was fairly well known in wealthy circles and I'd heard it over and over again.

Forbes inability to determine his net worth is interesting to say the least.

I don't think he makes the Hall of Fame.

Chiefs Ring of Honor for sure but if Terrell Davis can't get in, neither will Charles.

I can't criticize either party here. Thanks gord.

He not only did that, he had the go ahead hit in the Houston game 4 comeback, and he had the go ahead hit in the Toronto game 2 comeback.