Co-owner of Biloxi Shuckers suing team president

Tim Bennett, a co-owner of the Biloxi Shuckers Minor League baseball team, is suing the president of the Shuckers organization for non-payment of money owed, citing racial discrimination as the reason.

Bennett owns Overtime Sports, a management company, and he is a co-owner of the Shuckers franchise. Bennett is suing his former business partner and Shuckers president Ken Young.

The lawsuit says Young has a contract to pay Bennett $100,000 annually each January. Bennett says that he has not been paid the last two years.

Young now owes Bennett $227,500 according to the lawsuit.

Bennett claims in his lawsuit that Young, who is white, has honored his business financial commitments with other partners and vendors, who are white, but has not met his obligations to Bennett because he is black. Bennett said, “The bat has been taken out of my hand and there are some things that I have been left with no choice but to do some of the things I have had to do over the last two or three days. What i hope to come out of this is just further and continued success for the City of Biloxi and the Biloxi Shuckers organization. So, this is not Tim against the world here, this is just at some point and time you have to defend yourself.”

News 25 reached out to Ken Young and we have not received a response just yet.

This is not the first lawsuit Bennett has filed against Young. Bennett sought relief from the courts in 2017, saying he felt unwelcome in the Shuckers officer and was stripped of his title of vice president by Young.