Warren Giles
Warren Giles
Warren Crandall Gileswas an American professional baseball executive. He spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball, as club president and general manager of the Cincinnati Redsand president of the National League, and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 May 1896
CountryUnited States of America
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.