Nutting's half-billion dollar empire

FWIW. Facts are so hard to uncover about the men behind the curtain, we will take speculation and file it away. George Hohmann, writing for the Charleston Daily Mail, writes this:

A lot of truly powerful people make a point of staying out of the spotlight. So it's not surprising the magazine missed publicity-shy G. Ogden Nutting.

Nutting heads a Wheeling-based empire that's probably worth a half-billion dollars. We don't know an exact number because his companies are closely held private enterprises. We do know the family owns 40 daily newspapers, a slew of weekly papers and a rack full of magazines. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review estimates the family owns 25 percent of the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club. In June the family bought Seven Springs Mountain Resort. And Nutting is a director of United Bankshares Inc.

Back to your regularly-scheduled discussion of the question, "How well are the Pirates developing young starters?"