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Dan Topping, Larry MacPhail, and Del Webb purchased the Yankees from Ruppert's estate in 1945. [5] Topping and Webb forced MacPhail out of the Yankees ownership group due to his confrontational behavior after the 1947 World Series. [6] In 1964, Topping and Webb sold the team to CBS, [7] during which time the franchise struggled.
From 1996 to 2012, as vice president, player personnel, Connors was a member of the Yankees' front office, holding a senior position in the Bombers' player development system and based in the team's Tampa, Florida, minor league headquarters, working alongside Mark Newman, the club's longtime player development boss, and in close proximity to ...
[344] [345] Rodriguez played his final game on August 12, 2016, accepting a front office job with the Yankees shortly after. [346] In one of his final games, Teixeira hit a walk-off grand slam against the Boston Red Sox, his 409th and last career home run. [347] [348] The Yankees called up Tyler Austin and outfielder Aaron Judge in August.
However, by the early 1950s, Patterson found himself having to defend his "Cap Day" brainchild to MacPhail's staid successor as the Yankees’ front-office boss, George Weiss. "In those days, the Yankees didn't even have souvenir stands," Patterson told Sports Illustrated in 1975. "They didn't want to sell baseball caps in the stadium, because ...
Ralph George Houk (/ ˈ h aʊ k /; August 9, 1919 – July 21, 2010), nicknamed "the Major", was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the successor of Casey Stengel as manager of the New York Yankees from 1961 to 1963, when his teams won three consecutive American League ...
Billy Eppler (born September 16, 1975) is an American baseball executive who most recently served as the general manager of the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). In February 2024, Eppler was placed on MLB's ineligible list for the 2024 season due to fabrication of player injuries in violation of league rules during his tenure with the Mets. [1]
Swindal then joined the Yankees front office. [2] He became a general partner of the team and chairman of Yankee Global Enterprises, including a financial stake. [4] Swindal led the Yankees in negotiating a contract extension with manager Joe Torre in 2004. [5] In June 2005, he was named by Steinbrenner to be his eventual successor as head of ...
Derek Gordon Schiller [1] is an American baseball front office executive. Schiller joined the Atlanta Braves organization in 2003 and has been president since 2016. Schiller was vice president of business development for the New York Yankees from 1996 to 1997.