(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1998 1998 2001 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks Team Formation In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area’s NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, “Arizona Baseball, Inc.”, to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team. This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa …