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Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. Jackie Autry, the widow of former Angels owner Gene Autry served as honorary president of the AL, from 2000 to 2015. [3]
Pages in category "American League presidents" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Ernest Barnard;
Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. [10] In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL. [11]
American League President and founder Ban Johnson, in center, surrounded by the portraits of the league's eight teams in 1907.. Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899 with teams in mostly Great Lakes states, the league changed its name to the American League for the 1900 season and the next year developed into a second major league as a ...
Byron Bancroft "Ban" Johnson (January 5, 1864 – March 28, 1931) was an American executive in professional baseball who served as the founder and first president of the American League (AL). Johnson developed the AL—a descendant of the minor league Western League —into a "clean" alternative to the National League , which had become ...
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The following is a list of people who hold, or have previously held, the title of team president within Major League Baseball. This title should not be confused with "President of Baseball Operations" (or variants thereof, such as "Chief Baseball Officer"), which can be found at Category:Major League Baseball presidents of baseball operations .
The Indianapolis Indians won the first American Association championship (1902).. The American Association was formed in the fall of 1901 by Thomas J. Hickey, who had recently been appointed president of the Western League and was a founder of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. [1]