Mark Rosenthal, Lawyer for Dodgers & Braves, Has Died
Mark Rosenthal
Photo courtesy of law firm.
Los Angeles-based sports lawyer Mark Rosenthal, who represented the Los Angeles Dodgers, Angels, the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves in arbitration, died Feb. 3 of cancer. He was 61.
Rosenthal chaired the National Sports Law Group at his firm of 24 years, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Marmaro, the Associated Press reports.
An avid baseball card collector as a child, Rosenthal fed his passion for the sport by primarily representing baseball teams.
Among his noteworthy cases, he represented the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2004 in the successful arbitration case against Cy Young Award winning pitcher Eric Gagne and the Los Angeles Angels in 2008 in the successful arbitration against All-Star pitcher Francisco Rodriguez, his firm notes in a memorial statement.
Rosenthal graduated from Wesleyan University and earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
He is survived by his wife, Jill Rosenthal of Sierra Madre, and sons William Rosenthal, a student at the University of Michigan Law School, and Michael Rosenthal, who is a foreign service officer at the State Department.
