What is Ted Lerner?
{{Infobox person | name = Ted Lerner | image = Ted Lerner August 21, 2009 (3843524051) (cropped).jpg | birth_name = Theodore Nathan Lerner | birth_date = {{birth date|1925|10|15}} | birth_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|2|12|1925|10|15}} | death_place = [[Chevy Chase, Maryland]], U.S. | death_cause = [[Pneumonia]] | occupation = Managing principal owner of the [[Washington Nationals]] and [[Lerner Enterprises]] | education = [[George Washington University]] ([[Associate of Arts|AA]], [[Bachelor of Laws|LLB]]) | spouse = Annette Lerner | children = 3, including [[Mark D. Lerner|Mark]] | networth = {{decrease}}{{USD|5.2 billion}} (February 2016)<ref name=ForbesBillionairea>{{citation|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/ted-lerner/|magazine=Forbes|title=The World's Billionaires - Ted Lerner|date=January 2014}}</ref> }} '''Theodore Nathan Lerner''' (October 15, 1925 &ndash; February 12, 2023) was an American real estate developer. He was the managing principal owner of the [[Washington Nationals]] baseball team.<ref name=WaPoRetire>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-owner-ted-lerner-92-to-cede-control-of-club-to-son-mark/2018/06/14/3902cb24-6f80-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html|title=Nationals owner Ted Lerner, 92, to cede control of club to his son, Mark|first=Barry|last=Svrluga|date=14 June 2018|newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> He was the founder of the real estate company [[Lerner Enterprises]], the largest private landowner in the [[Washington metropolitan area]] as well as [[Chelsea Piers]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|author=Paul Toscano|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110215739/http://www.cnbc.com/id/46941774/The_10_Richest_MLB_Owners?slide=10|archive-date=January 10, 2015|url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/46941774/The_10_Richest_MLB_Owners?slide=10 |title=The 10 Richest MLB Owners |publisher=CNBC|access-date=April 7, 2014}}</ref> In 2015, ''Forbes'' magazine named him the richest person