John Fetzer had an intense intellectual curiosity about the "unseen elements" of life. He studied various forms of meditation, prayer, philosophy, and positive thinking, and explored other ways of healing. Throughout his life he was also passionately interested in baseball, an enthusiasm that led him to purchase the Detroit Tigers baseball club. In his later years, the sale of the team and his media holdings resulted in the endowment of the Fetzer Institute. The interests that shaped John Fetzer's life can be seen as the seedbed for the questions that define the work of the Fetzer Institute: How can the secular and sacred elements of life be better integrated? How can the insights of science and the powers of technological innovation be utilized to explore the capacities of the mind and spirit? How can the wisdom and insight gained through inner exploration be used to better our individual and collective health? And how can the entrepreneurial spirit and financial resources gained from the American business sector be used in the service of creating a better world? John Fetzer died in 1991 in a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he was being treated for pneumonia. Former Fetzer-owned broadcast properties Radio: WWAM/WKJF (now WLJW) and WWTV-FM/WKJF-FM (now WJZQ), Cadillac, Michigan WJEF (now WTKG), Grand Rapids, Michigan WJFM (now WBCT), Grand Rapids, Michigan WKZO, Kalamazoo, Michigan KOLN (now KLIN), Lincoln, Nebraska Television: WWTV, Cadillac, Michigan; and satellite station WWUP, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan WKZO-TV (now WWMT), Kalamazoo, Michigan KMEG-TV, Sioux City, Iowa KOLN-TV, Lincoln, Nebraska; and satellite station KGIN-TV, Grand Island, Nebraska References Further reading Wilson, Brian C. John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018 External links Baseball Hall of Fame - 2008 Veterans Committee candidate profile Fetzer Institute web site Fetzer Franklin Fund web site Fetzer Memorial Trust web site 1901 births 1991 deaths Detroit Tigers executives Detroit Tigers owners Major League Baseball executives Major League Baseball owners Andrews University alumni People from Decatur, Indiana 20th-century American businesspeople