J. Donald Crump
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John Donald Crump was Commissioner of the Canadian Football League
Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....

 from January 1990 to December 1991. During the previous two decades he had worked for Harold Ballard
Harold Ballard
Harold E. Ballard was an owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League as well as their home arena, Maple Leaf Gardens. A member of the Leafs organization from 1940 and a senior executive from 1957, he became part-owner of the team in 1961 and was majority owner from February...

 as an executive of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a Canadian Football League team based in Hamilton, Ontario, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Ivor Wynne Stadium...

 and financial officer of Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens
Maple Leaf Gardens is an indoor arena that was converted into a Loblawssupermarket and Ryerson University athletic centre in Toronto, on the northwest corner of Carlton Street and Church Street in Toronto's Garden District.One of the temples of hockey, it was home to the Toronto Maple Leafs of the...

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He was a chartered accountant by training and joined Maple Leaf Gardens in the 1970s. He later said in an interview with the Toronto Sun “When I went in (to MLG), there was less than a million dollars in surplus earnings... When I left, it was a stable business, with $14 or $15 million in retained earnings.”

Crump, an executor of Ballard's will in 1990, helped Steve Stavro
Steve Stavro
Steve Atanas Stavro, CM , born Manoli Stavroff Sholdas, was a Macedonian Canadian businessman, grocery store magnate, Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder, sports team owner, and a noted philanthropist....

gain control of Maple Leaf Gardens Enterprises following the death of Ballard.

(sources: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/05/06/excfl-commish-gardens-exec-donald--crump-dies and http://www.thestar.com/sports/football/cfl/article/987198--former-cfl-commissioner-donald-crump-dies-at-age-78?bn=1)
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