1966 New York Yankees Management Profiles

DAN TOPPING (President)
"The New York Yankees have become synonymous with baseball championships. Despite the off-year in 1965, no athletic organization in the history of American sports has compiled the record of success attained by the Yankees. Since winning their first American League pennant in 1921, the Yankees have captured a record 29 league titles and 20 World Championships.
Since Daniel R. Topping assumed the chief executive's chair immediately after World War II, the Bombers have won an amazing 15 American League pennants and 10 World Series championships ... a record of excellence unmatched in sports annals.
Now President of the New York Yankees, Inc. under the ownership control of the Columbia Broadcast System, Inc., Dan Topping has pledged to New York Yankee fans the same 'tradition of triumph' ... the same outstanding brand of baseball at its best ... and the same top-flight management as has been the club's custom for the last two decades.
'Our owners want a successful, winning team in historic Yankee Stadium,' Mr. Topping said this spring. 'They want us to bring the best in baseball to Yankee fans in the most comfortable surroundings, and we intend to do just that, as we have in the past,' the club president said.
Topping has been an avid sportsman all his life. He was a topflight amateur golfer in his earlier years, and later owned and operated the old Brooklyn Football Dodgers and later the New York Yankees of the All-American Conference. But since first acquiring the baseball Yankees 21 years ago, his chief sports interest has been the Bronx Bombers. Now under the new CBS ownership, he will continue to direct the operation of baseball's most celebrated team, the New York Yankees, and, he hopes, in the same successful way."

-The New York Yankees 1966 Official Yearbook

RALPH HOUK (General Manager)
"Under Mr. Topping's guidance, the Yankees have been under the direction of Ralph G. Houk, vice-president, director and (up to May 7) the club's general manager. Although he now is back in the dugout as field manager, Houk still has the final say in trades and player personnel, in addition to the full field responsibility. An acknowledged outstanding leader on the field, Houk became an equally successful general manager. His meteoric rise in the game is without parallel. Twenty-seven years ago, Ralph was an ambitious young catcher starting in the low minors. He reached the Bombers as an understudy to Yogi Berra, was named player-coach, went to Denver for three successful years as a minor league pilot and returned as a Yankee coach in 1958. He succeeded Casey Stengel as Yankee manager in 1961 and piloted the club to three consecutive pennants and two World Championships."

-The New York Yankees Official 1966 Yearbook

DAN TOPPING, JR. (Assistant General Manager)
"Acting general manager since Houk's move back to field manager is Daniel R. Topping, Jr., who has served as assistant G.M. under Ralph. Closely affiliated with baseball since his childhood, Dan Topping, Jr. has had excellent training for his current increased responsibilities. Dan served an apprenticeship as general manager of the Fort Lauderdale Yankees where his team won the pennant in its first year of operation. Later he served in a variety of capacities at the Stadium before moving into the executive office as acting G.M. Dan, Jr., working with the various Yankee department heads, will supervise the internal operations of the club under the recent realignment."

-The New York Yankees Official 1966 Yearbook