Paul Snyder (basketball)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Snyder is a Buffalo, New York businessman and former owner of the Buffalo Braves basketball team.[1]
He founded the Freezer Queen frozen food company in Buffalo in 1958[2] and founded the Darien Lake theme park after purchasing 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land in Genesee County, New York in 1964. He also briefly operated a (now demolished) Industrial Park located on the southeastern grounds of the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in the late 1980s.
He was the first owner of the Buffalo Braves, which was an expansion team in the 1970-1971 NBA season. The team currently plays in Los Angeles as the Clippers.[3]
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,904058,00.html Time magazine -- Braves new world
- ^ http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/07/03/daily46.html Buffalo Business First -- Freezer Queen to close
- ^ http://www.nba.com/clippers/history/Clippers_History__Buffalo-53157-111.html NBA.com LA Clippers history 1970-71
