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Eddie DeBartolo’s journey from Youngstown, Ohio, to owner of the 49ers will reach its final destination just 60 miles from his hometown. DeBartolo was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday in a vote of the 46-member board of selectors on the eve of Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium, CSN Bay Area’s Mindi Bach reported Saturday. The enshrinement ceremony will take place on Aug. 6, in Canton, Ohio. DeBartolo, 69, this year’s lone nominee as a “contributor” was selected for the Class of 2016. The latest group of Hall of Fame inductees, as selected during a...

Montana, Rice, many more will hit Paris Las Vegas Hotel Former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo has always enjoyed a good party -- but this time he's about to outdo himself. DeBartolo has invited a few hundred of his closest friends -- and just about anybody who had anything to do with the five Super Bowl championship glory days -- to a three-day, three-night party this week at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel. It is billed in the invite as "the most exclusive event in the history of professional football.'' Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Bill Walsh and George Seifert...