The Bavasi brothers: Peter, Bill, and Bob, as well as author Ken LaZebnik, join JapanBall's #ChatterUp host Shane Barclay to tell stories about their lives working in baseball and discuss Ken's book about their father, "Buzzie and the Bull."
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Bill Bavasi is a baseball lifer. He grew up around the Dodgers of the 60s, along with his brothers, Bob, Peter, and Chris, while his dad Buzzie was leading the team to four world championships.
Bill earned his stripes working in Player Development for the Angels, eventually working his way up to General Manager, a post he held from 1994-1999. After the Angels, he was the Farm Director of the Dodgers. In 2003, the Seattle Mariners hired him to be their GM, and he remained there until 2008. Afterwards, he caught on with the Cincinnati Reds, working as Vice President of Scouting, Player Development and International Operations.
In 2014, Bavasi joined Major League Baseball's Office of the Commissioner as Director of the Major League Scouting Bureau. Today, he is still with MLB as the Senior Director of Baseball Development, where his duties include overseeing the Arizona Fall League.
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to endure a few years working with Bill in both New York and Arizona, and he was the one who first introduced me to his brother Bob, ultimately leading me to where I am today at JapanBall!
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Peter Bavasi is a longtime baseball executive, most known for his roles as the founding President of the Toronto Blue Jays, General Manager of the San Diego Padres, and President of the Cleveland Indians. He also directed the international sports practice at Hill & Knowlton, then the world's largest public relations firm, and was president of ESPN SportsTicker, the leading supplier of instant sports news and information. Since 1983 Peter has been a strategic advisor to teams, sports media outlets, and industry suppliers; and to cities seeking Major League Baseball teams, including the successful franchise pursuits in St. Petersburg, FL and Washington, DC.
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Bob Bavasi is the founder of JapanBall, but also founded and/or operated various other baseball entities (along with his wife, Margaret), including the Everett Aquasox (minor league affiliate of the Seattle Mariners), the Horizon Air Summer Series (an innovative collegiate baseball invitational league), and the Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox.
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Ken LaZebnik grew up in Columbia, Missouri as a fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. He currently bounces back and forth between Studio City, LA and Brooklyn. A multi-talented author, playwrite, and humorist, his talents know no bounds.
There is a good chance that you have seen or heard his work in movies, on television, in your earbuds, or on the stage. His portfolio includes credits to titles such as A Prairie Home Companion, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Touched by an Angel.
While in college, Ken started a baseball literary quarterly called the Minneapolis Review of Baseball which became eventually became the Elysian Fields Quarterly. He also wrote a couple of baseball plays in Minneapolis: a one-man show about former Twins owner Calvin Griffith and another that was set in the Angels bullpen in Spring Training.
He currently at Long Island University, where he is Director of their Masters of Fine Arts in Television Writing program and is also busy writing a play and pitching TV shows.
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