Major League Baseball Central Office Executives: Baseball Commissioners

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Baseball commissioners, Major League Baseball Executive Vice Presidents for Baseball Operations, Bud Selig, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Joe Torre, History of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, Happy Chandler, Bowie Kuhn, Fay Vincent, Peter Ueberroth, Commissioner of Baseball, Sandy Alderson, Lee MacPhail, Ford Frick, William Eckert, Jimmie Lee Solomon, Paul Beeston, Ryozo Kato, Bob DuPuy. Excerpt: As manager Torre in 1982Joseph Paul Torre (pronounced ) (born July 18, 1940) is a former American professional baseball player and manager who currently serves as Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations. A nine-time All-Star, he played in Major League Baseball as a catcher, first baseman and a third baseman for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, New York Mets, and the St. Louis Cardinals. After his retirement as a player, he later managed all three teams. Torre managed the New York Yankees from 1996 to 2007. The Yankees reached the post season each year and won ten American League East Division titles, six American League pennants, four World Series titles, and compiled a .605 winning percentage overall. With 2,326 wins, he is currently the 5th winningest manager in Major League Baseball History. Torre followed in his brother Frank's footsteps when he was signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1960. In his first season in the minor leagues with the Class A Eau Claire Braves, he won the 1960 Northern League batting championship with a .344 batting average. Torre made his major league debut late in the season on September 21, 1960. He was assigned to the Triple A Louisville Colonels for the 1961 season where, the Braves had planned to groom him as the eventual successor to their All-Star catcher, Del Crandall. However, those plans were changed when Cra...