Former Pirates majority owner and newspaper group publisher G. Ogden Nutting has died at 87

G. Ogden Nutting, who once held a majority ownership stake in major league baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates before his son took over and helped grow his family’s newspaper business to more than 50 daily publications in 18 states, has died. Nutting died Friday, according to The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, which published his obituary and a separate story on his death Monday. A Wheeling resident, Nutting was the longtime publisher of Ogden Newspapers Inc. and spent more than 60 years in various roles with the private company.