Rose, at 75 years old, shouldn’t get excited just yet – and as a man as full of conceit and arrogance as any human being and more than most he nevertheless will. But in the direction Manfred is headed M.L.B. could become a hotbed of gambling in Rose’s lifetime.
Fay Vincent, the former baseball commissioner, has been telling me for years that baseball would …
The 42-year-old rookie general manager was seeking wisdom from the master, the man who constructed teams that won an unparalleled 14 consecutive division championships.
“It was when he first joined the organization,” Schuerholz recalled last week, speaking by telephone from what is now the vice chairman’s office. “He wanted to find out what made our organization tick and succeed as consistently as we did.”
Schuerholz, who has since become a Hall of Fame executive, invited Dimitroff to a game.
“He sat with me at a game,” Schuerholz related …
Manfred, who last Wednesday marked his second anniversary as commissioner of Major League Baseball, took another step in what has been his futile effort to mount a successful program for hiring members of minorities.
Up to now, Manfred’s diversity efforts have been embarrassingly abysmal. He has tried different approaches, most notably the hiring of a search firm, Korn Ferry, to which he paid millions of dollars, then dismissed because of conflicts of interest.
Last week the commissioner named …
