WHO'S THE BOSS?
A LISTING OF DECEASED GM'S AND EXECUTIVES
GM'S AND EXECUTIVES Baltimore 1901 Sidney W. Frank 1902 John J. Mahon Boston 1901-1902 Charles W. Somers 1903-1904 Henry J. Killilea 1904-1911 John I. Taylor 1912-1913 James R. McAleer 1913-1916 Joseph J. Lannin 1917-1923 Harry H. Frazee 1923-1932 Robert Quinn 1933-1976 Thomas A. Yawkey 1977-1988 Jean R. Yawkey Chicago 1901-1931 Charles A. Comiskey 1932-1939 J. Louis Comiskey 1940 Harry Grabiner 1941-1956 Grace Comiskey Cleveland 1901-1909 John F. Kilfoyl 1910-1915 Charles W. Somers 1916-1922 James C. Dunn 1922-1927 Ernest S. Barnard 1928-1946 Alva Bradley 1946-1949 William L. Veeck, Jr. 1950-1952 Ellis W. Ryan 1953-1962 Myron H. Wilson, Jr. 1963-1971 Gabriel H. Paul 1978-1985 Gabriel H. Paul Detroit 1901 James D. Burns 1902-1903 Samuel F. Angus 1904-1907 William H. Yawkey 1908-1935 Frank J. Navin 1936-1952 Walter O. Briggs, Sr. 1952-1956 Walter O. Briggs, Jr. 1957 Frederick A. Knorr 1957-1959 Harvey R. Hansen 1960 William O. DeWitt 1961-1989 John E. Fetzer 1978-1989 James Campbell Kansas City 1955-1959 Arnold Johnson 1960 Parke Carroll 1961-1967 Charles O. Finley Kansas City 1969-1993 Ewing Kauffman Milwaukee 1901 Matthew Killilea New York 1903-1906 Joseph W. Gordon 1907-1914 Frank J. Farrell 1915-1938 Jacob Ruppert 1939-1944 Edward G. Barrow 1945-1947 Leland S. MacPhail, Sr. 1948-1966 Daniel R. Topping 1966-1973 Michael Burke 1973-1977 Gabriel H. Paul Oakland (AL) 1990-1995 Walter J. Haas Seattle (AL) Danny Kaye St. Louis 1902 Ralph T. Orthwein 1903-1915 Robert L. Hedges 1916-1933 Philip D. Ball 1934-1936 Louis B. Von Weise 1937-1945 Donald F. Barnes 1946-1948 Richard C. Muckerman 1949-1951 William O. DeWitt 1951-1953 William L. Veeck, Jr. Texas 1972-1974 Robert E. Short Washington 1901-1903 Frederick Postal 1904 Thomas J. Loftus 1904 Harry B. Lambert 1905-1912 Thomas C. Noyes 1920-1955 Clark C. Griffith 1956-1960 Calvin R. Griffith 1892 Harry B. Von der Horst 1893-1899 Edward H. Hanlon Boston 1876 Nathan T. Appolonio 1907-1909 George B. Dovey 1909-1910 John S. Dovey 1911 W. Hepburn Russell 1912 John M. Ward 1913-1915 James E. Gaffney 1916-1918 Percy D. Haughton 1919-1922 George W. Grant 1923 Christy Mathewson 1924 J.A. Robert Quinn 1925 Christy Mathewson 1926 J.A. Robert Quinn 1927-1935 Emil E. Fuchs 1936-1944 J.A. Robert Quinn 1945-1952 Louis R. Perini Brooklyn 1890-1897 Charles H. Byrne 1898-1925 Charles H. Ebbets 1925 Edward J. McKeever 1925-1929 Wilbert Robinson 1930-1932 Frank B. York 1933-1938 Stephen W. McKeever 1939-1942 Leland S. MacPhail, Sr. 1943-1950 W. Branch Rickey 1950-1957 Walter F. O'Malley Buffalo 1879-1880 E.B. Smith 1880 John B. Sage 1881-1885 Josiah Jewett Chicago 1876-1881 William A. Hulbert 1882-1891 Albert G. Spalding 1892-1905 James A. Hart 1906-1913 Charles W. Murphy 1914-1915 Charles H. Thomas 1916-1918 Charles H. Weeghman 1919 Fred F. Mitchell 1919-1933 William F. Veeck 1934 William M. Walker 1934-1977 Philip K. Wrigley Cincinnati 1876-1877 Josiah L. Keck 1878-1879 J. Wayne Neff 1880 Justus Thorner 1890 Aaron A. Stern 1891-1902 John T. Brush 1902-1927 August Hermann 1928-1929 C.J. McDiarmid 1930-1933 Sidney Weil 1934-1946 Powel Crosley, Jr. 1946-1951 Warren C. Giles 1951-1961 Powel Crosley, Jr. 1961-1966 William O. DeWitt 1967-1973 Francis L. Dale Cleveland 1879-1881 J. Ford Evans 1882-1884 C.H. Bulkley Cleveland 1889-1898 Frank D. Robison 1899 M. Stanley Robison Detroit 1881-1884 William G. Thompson 1885-1886 Joseph H. Marsh 1887-1888 Fred K. Stearns 1888 Charles W. Smith Hartford 1876-1877 Morgan G. Bulkeley Indianapolis 1878 William D. Perritt Indianapolis 1887-1889 John T. Brush Kansas City 1886 Joseph J. Heim Louisville 1876-1877 Walter N. Haldeman Louisville 1892 T. Hunt Stucky 1893-1896 Fred Drexler 1897-1899 Harry C. Pulliam 1899 Barney Dreyfuss Milwaukee 1878 J.R. Kaine Milwaukee 1953-1956 Louis R. Perini New York 1876 William Cammeyer New York 1883-1892 John B. Day 1893-1894 C.C. Van Cott 1895-1902 Andrew Freedman 1903-1912 John T. Brush 1912-1918 Harry N. Hempstead 1919-1935 Charles A. Stoneham 1936-1957 Horace C. Stoneham New York 1962-1966 George M. Weiss 1966-1967 Vaughan P. Devine 1968-1975 Joan W. Payson Philadelphia 1876 Thomas J. Smith Philadelphia 1883-1902 Alfred J. Reach 1903-1904 James Potter 1905-1908 William J. Shettsline 1909 Israel W. Durham 1909-1912 Horace S. Fogel 1912 Alfred D. Wiler 1913 William H. Locke 1913-1930 William F. Baker 1931-1932 L. Charles Ruch 1933-1942 Gerald P. Nugent 1943 William D. Cox 1943-1972 Robert M. Carpenter, Jr. Pittsburgh 1887-1890 William A. Nimick 1891 J. Palmer O'Neill 1892 William C. Temple 1893 Albert C. Buckenberger 1894-1897 William W. Kerr 1898 William H. Watkins 1899 William W. Kerr 1900-1932 Barney Dreyfuss 1932-1946 William E. Benswanger 1946-1950 Frank E. McKinney 1951-1969 John W. Galbreath Providence 1878 John D. Thurston 1879-1881 Henry J. Root 1882-1883 Henry B. Winship 1884-1885 Henry J. Root
St. Louis 1876-1877 John R. Lucas St. Louis 1885-1886 Henry V. Lucas St. Louis 1892-1897 Chris Von der Ahe 1898 Benjamin S. Muckenfuss 1899-1906 Frank D. Robison 1907-1910 M. Stanley Robison 1911-1912 E.A. Steininger 1912 James C. Jones 1913-1916 Schuyler P. Britton 1917-1919 W. Branch Rickey 1920-1947 Samuel Breadon 1947-1949 Robert E. Hannegan 1949-1952 Fred M. Saigh, Jr. 1953-1989 August A. Busch, Jr San Diego
1969-1974 C. Arnholt Smith 1977-1983 Ray A. Kroc 1988 Chub Feeney
San Francisco 1958-1975 Horace C. Stoneham Syracuse 1879 Hamilton S. White Troy 1879-1880 Gardner Earl 1881-1882 A.L. Hotchkin 1882 Francis C. Mann Washington 1886-1888 Robert C. Hewitt 1889 Walter F. Hewitt Washington 1892-1899 George W. Wagner Worcester 1880-1882 Elbert B. Pratt AL CAMPANIS: DODGERS EXECUTIVE JIM CAMPBELL: GM DET (AL) ED BARROW: GM YANKEES RUBE FOSTER: NEGRO LEAGUE FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE JIM GALLAGHER: GM CHI (NL) HANK GREENBERG: VICE PRESIDENT AND GM OF THE INDIANS / VICE PRESIDENT OF THE WHITE SOX JOHNNY MURPHY: GM OF THE NY METS HERB PENNOCK: PRESIDENT AND GM OF THE PHILLIES GEORGE WEISS: GM YANKEES / NY (NL)