What is one little-known fact about being a league president?
I would say that the amount of business-type matters that are handled by league directors and the league office, some of them being legal in nature might surprise people. Minor League Baseball is a business, and there’s a business side and a legal side that people don’t see and don’t really know about. What is your favorite part about being league president? Most of us don’t know how we ended up on the path to being a president. I enjoy very much operating Minor League clubs, and pretty much always wanted to do that. There’s a certain magic to Minor League Baseball, not only from the players or what’s on the field, but also with the interaction with the fans. Closeness among ownership groups, our daily contact with the player development personnel with the Major League teams and the young players and young umpires as well. All that is a very, very pleasant thing. The league president job is probably the second best; the first is probably running a club. What would you be doing if you d
