John Sherman's purchase of the Royals approved, could he have taken over the Indians?

Many Cleveland Indians fans have been wanting current owner the Dolan's to sell their baseball team, with the hope that a new owner would open the pocketbook to sign players.

While the Dolan's have never publicly come out and stated that they were interested in selling the team, there was a report today in the Kansas City Star stating that new Royals owner John Sherman had interest in becoming the Indians majority owner.

Sherman owned 30 percent of the Indians, and now that he's the owner of the Royals will have to sell his shares in the team.

The report in the Star indicates that Sherman had intentions of eventually becoming the controlling partner of the Indians, but that when the chance to own his hometown team, the Royals, became available, he shifted his focus (and money) to buying one of the Indians AL Central rivals.Here's what the article said about Sherman looking to eventually being the owner of the Tribe.

Sherman is a minority owner in the Indians, a stake thought to be around 30 percent. He had a path to become the majority owner but instead will divest himself of that interest to control his hometown team, the one he’s had season tickets for in the past.What makes the news more interesting is again, the Dolan's have never talked about a plan to sell the team, so it could be pure speculation that Sherman would eventually be the top guy owning the Tribe.Sherman paid a billion for the Royals, and today his purchase of the team was approved by a unanimous vote from MLB owners at meetings in Texas.

Paul Dolan put out a statement saying that the Indians "remain committed to our pursuit of winning the World Series, while creating compeling fan experience.”The Indians would comment on the report in the KC Star that Sherman would have eventually become the majority owner of the team.