American billionaire Mike Ilitch, who went from minor league baseball player to founder of a sprawling family business, Ilitch Holdings, has died at the age of 87.
The Detroit-born businessman was known as an All-City athlete in baseball and track, the founder of Little Caesars—now the third-largest pizza chain in the US with 2015 sales of $3.5 billion—and a patron of the city in which he was born.