Why one pro soccer team in Orange County has 1,463 shareholders
Briefly

"I own a lot of Apple stock but they don't call me, either. So that's OK. I don't want management responsibility. What I want is to be able to go up and enjoy it and support what the management is doing."
"Fan ownership of a sports team is nothing new. The NFL's Green Bay Packers, for example, have more than 538,000 stockholders, many of them simple fans, while clubs in the German Bundesliga are required to give their members a majority of the voting rights, ensuring that those members - in many cases the fans - have the final say in how the club is run."
Read at Los Angeles Times
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