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Dale A. Petroskey (born August 17, 1955) is the current President and CEO of the Dallas Regional Chamber. [1] He is the former Executive Vice President of Marketing for the Texas Rangers baseball club, a former executive of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the National Geographic Society, and a former political appointee in the administration of United States President Ronald ...
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (center), with Babe Ruth (left) and Bob Meusel Frankie Frisch as a player, c.1919 Bill Mazeroski was elected by the Veterans Committee in 2001.. The Veterans Committee can be traced back to 1939 when Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis formed the Old-Timers Committee to consider players from the 19th century for induction to the Hall of Fame.
Leland Stanford "Larry" MacPhail Sr. (February 3, 1890 – October 1, 1975) was an American lawyer and an executive in Major League Baseball.He served as a high-ranking executive, including club president and general manager, with the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, and was a one-third owner of the Yankees from 1945 through 1947.
Idelson joined the Baseball Hall of Fame on September 26, 1994, as director of public relations and promotions. He was named as the organization's vice president of communications and education in 1999, [3] a role that includes overseeing the Hall of Fame elections and awards, communications, community and media relations, publications, public programs, promotions, advertising, and artifact ...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by private interests.It serves as the central point of the history of baseball in the United States and displays baseball-related artifacts and exhibits, honoring those who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport.
Although the league is conventionally listed as a major league, this status has been questioned [5] by a number of modern baseball historians, most notably Bill James in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, who found that the contemporary baseball guides did not consider the Union Association to be a major league: the earliest ...
William Harridge (October 16, 1883 – April 9, 1971) was an American executive in professional baseball whose most significant role was as president of the American League (AL) from 1931 to 1959. Harridge, who was formative in creating the Baseball All Star Game in 1933, [1] was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in ...
Al Gore – Vice President of the United States; Mike Gravel - US Senator from Alaska, conducted national Jaycee tour advocating tax reform and free enterprise in 1958; Larry Holmes – Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion; Rogers Hornsby – Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player; Howard Hughes – industrialist