Sports Business Journal has ranked their 50 most influential people in sports business. Here are the BASEBALL people from the list. What do you think of the ordering? (Order, not rank. Rankings involved people from the lesser sports and elsewhere.)
6. Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball.
18. Bob DuPuy, MLB preznit & COO.
20. John Henry, owner of New England Sports Ventures, including the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, and a big piece of NESN.
22. Tim Brosnan, MLB executive VP of business.
28. Hal (not Hank) Steinbrenner, New York Yankees co-chair.
29. Bob Bowman, preznit/CEO, MLB Advanced Media (web stuff).
41. Don Fehr, executive director, MLB Players Association.
42. Scott Boras, player agent.
So that’s the baseball folk — four guys in the executive suite, two heads of top-shelf teams, the union’s top man, and the most aggressive agent in the biz. I think the order is about right, though Hal may be lower than he should (still wet behind the ears in MLB though).
Since you’ll want to know, here’s the top five:
1. George Bodenheimer, preznit of ESPN & ABC Sports.
2. Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys owner.
3. David Stern, NBA Commissioner.
4. Roger Goodell, NFL Commissioner.
5. Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports chair.
And, not that he has anything to do with baseball after all these years, but at #49 we find Peter Ueberroth, former Commissioner of Baseball (1984-89) and former head of the US Olympic Committee. Hiya, Pete.
Link to first part of the list: http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/art…
