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Preserving
The Legacy
Steve Greenberg
combines professional
and personal passions.
LONNY GOLDSMITH
StaffWriter
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Steve Greenberg was as good a -1
baseball player as his father, woule\'
he be playing in the Carolina
eague?
That was the question he threw ba&'
at reporters who asked him if he could \I
hit like former Detroit Tiger Hank
Greenberg.
Now, 23 years after retiring from
professional baseball himself, the
younger Greenberg is president of the ,
Classic Sports Network, a cable channel
that shows great sporting events of the
past.
Greenberg, 49,
was born in New
York the year
after his father
ended his major
league career. He
lived in
Cleveland during
the baseball sea-
CSN President
son when his
Steve Greenberg.
father was general
manager of the Indians.
He graduated from Yale University
in 1970, as the captain of the Bulldog
baseball team.
He played five seasons in the Texas
Rangers organization, the last three in
AAA — the highest level of minor
league baseball.
"I got caught going sideways,"
Greenberg said. "I got the hint that it \
would be questionable if I got called
up.
In 1977, after stepping away from
baseball, Greenberg earned a law degree
from UCLA.
Late in 1989, Greenberg was
approached with the opportunity of
lifetime.
"(Then-Commissioner of Baseball)
Fay Vincent came to me and asked me'
to be the deputy commissioner of
Major League Baseball," he said.
In that role, he had the responsibility
of handling the day-to-day operations,
including broadcasting, legal/legislative
affairs and finance. He was also the
chairman of the board of Major League
Baseball Properties, Inc. — baseball's
promotional arm.
"There were times where I'd have to
pinch myself, like sitting in the front
row during a World Series game,"
Greenberg said.