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Dombrowski is the Red Sox new President of Baseball Operations

GMs

1963-1983 Jim Campbell


1984-1990 Bill Lajoie

1991-1992 Joe McDonald


1993 Jerry Walker

1994-1995 Joe Klein



1996-2001 Randy Smith (6 full years)

2002-2015 Dave Dombrowski (12 full years as GM, 13+ full as team President and CEO) )



Owner (Team President)

John Fetzer 1956-1983 (Fetzer 1961-1978, Jim Campbell 1978-1983)

Tom Monaghan 1983-1992 (Jim Campbell 1984-1990, Bo Schembechler 1990-1992)

Mike Illitch 1992-Present (Mike Illitch 1992-1995, John McHale 1995-2001, Dave Dombowski 2001-2015, Chris Illitch 2015)
 
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GMs

1963-1983 Jim Campbell


1984-1990 Bill Lajoie

1991-1992 Joe McDonald


1993 Jerry Walker

1994-1995 Joe Klein



1996-2001 Randy Smith (6 full years)

2002-2015 Dave Dombrowski (12 full years as GM, 13+ full as team President and CEO) )



Owner (Team President)

John Fetzer 1956-1983 (Fetzer 1961-1978, Jim Campbell 1978-1983)

Tom Monaghan 1983-1992 (Jim Campbell 1984-1990, Bo Schembechler 1990-1992)

Mike Illitch 1992-Present (Mike Illitch 1992-1995, John McHale 1995-2001, Dave Dombowski 2001-2015, Chris Illitch 2015)

Freaking Bo Schembechler. What a joke!
 
With our luck the Red sox will win another WS title before us again..
 
Freaking Bo Schembechler. What a joke!

I recall that Bo made a positive contributions to the infrastructure of the minor leagues. And he did no real harm to the organization.

So help me understand your opinion of his tenure as Tigers' president.
 
I recall that Bo made a positive contributions to the infrastructure of the minor leagues. And he did no real harm to the organization.

So help me understand your opinion of his tenure as Tigers' president.

The joke was they hired a college football coach to be the President of a professional baseball team. It was just a PR move that backfired. Firing Ernie Harwell? Nice move there.
 
The joke was they hired a college football coach to be the President of a professional baseball team. It was just a PR move that backfired. Firing Ernie Harwell? Nice move there.

Bo didn't fire Ernie. Everyone knows that Jim Long did. Bo took the blame for it, though, because Long would not talk to the press initially.
 
I recall that Bo made a positive contributions to the infrastructure of the minor leagues. And he did no real harm to the organization.

So help me understand your opinion of his tenure as Tigers' president.


First, he was the one credited with firing Ernie Harwell. A biggie if you ask me.


Plus = Bo helped the infrastructure/training facilities.

Still, it is hard to judge him on two full seasons. I was more or less highlighting when he was team president and at the same time, Joe McDonald was the GM.
 
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Teams in 2006 that have had at least three relievers with an ERA <3 and >20 IP.
 
I stuck close to that story as it unfolded because I could not get my head around Bo being the trigger man.


But I still don't think it is common knowledge, even amongst Tigers' fans.

Wikipedia has this vague commentary:

In 1991, he presided over the firing of Tigers' longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell. The move was decried by fans and the press. Management at the Tigers' flagship radio station WJR later claimed responsibility for the sacking, but Schembechler and club owner Tom Monaghan were denounced for the decision.


I was in the Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona at the time (July 1990-July 1995). Long before any real internet. USA Today was the closest to thing to national news and that was only Monday through Friday.


Even after the internet, until now, I never saw anything which exonerated Bo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Schembechler#cite_note-8
 
But I still don't think it is common knowledge, even amongst Tigers' fans.

Wikipedia has this vague commentary:

In 1991, he presided over the firing of Tigers' longtime broadcaster Ernie Harwell. The move was decried by fans and the press. Management at the Tigers' flagship radio station WJR later claimed responsibility for the sacking, but Schembechler and club owner Tom Monaghan were denounced for the decision.


I was in the Army at Fort Huachuca, Arizona at the time (July 1990-July 1995). Long before any real internet. USA Today was the closest to thing to national news and that was only Monday through Friday.


Even after the internet, until now, I never saw anything which exonerated Bo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Schembechler#cite_note-8

Mitch Albom also wrote about this two months after Ernie was fired.

That's where I first learned the actual story.
 
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