Career
Britton was the first woman to own a Major League Baseball franchise. She was born on January 30, 1879 in Cleveland, Ohio to Frank DeHass Robison and Sarah Carver Hathaway. Britton"s father owned the Cleveland Spiders until the team folded after the 1899 season.
She sold the team in 1917.
She remarried on August 19, 1918. She died in Philadelphia on January 8, 1950 at the age of 71.
