1983 New York Yankees Management Profiles

GENE MCHALE (President)
"In naming Gene McHale as President of the New York Yankees on January 5, 1983, Principal Owner George M. Steinbrenner said, 'In filling this key position, there was no need to look anywhere else but within the Yankee organization. Gene has a solid and proven administrative, business and financial background and has been a longtime employee of the Yankees.
'Much of the progress the Yankees have made in the areas of television, radio, publications, merchandising and ticketing is due to his efforts. The Yankees are proud to have employees of the caliber of Gene McHale and to promote from within the organization to fill this position.'
Eugene J. 'Gene' McHale, 44, has been with the Yankees since December 1972. As an employee of CBS, who then owned the Yankees, he was assigned to supervise the Yankee accounting department. When George Steinbrenner and associates purchased the Yankees from CBS in January 1973, McHale remained with the team as controller. He was named administrative vice-president in 1977. Before coming to the Yankees, he worked for seven years at CBS with responsibilities in financial and business affairs in their radio division.
A native of the Washington Heights section of Manhattan, McHale graduated from Cardinal Hayes High School several blocks away from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. He is a graduate of Fordham University and also served three years in the U.S. Navy. Gene is a resident of Locust Valley, New York."

-1983 New York Yankees Information Guide


CEDRIC TALLIS (Executive Vice-President)
"Cedric Tallis, Executive Vice-President of the New York Yankees, is in his 35th season of professional baseball, although it took the highest honor an executive can achieve, The Sporting News Executive of the Year Award (1971), to make him nationally known among sports fans.
Tallis began his baseball career in 1948 with the Thomasville, Georgia franchise, and his minor league experience also carried him to Jamestown, New York; Flint, Michigan; Montgomery, Alabama; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Seattle, Washington. It was with Vancouver in 1957 that he was named Pacific Coast League Executive of the Year when his club drew 306,000 fans, a total unequaled in the minor leagues for the next decade. In 1961, he joined the new Los Angeles Angels, the American League expansion team, as Business Manager. In 1965, with the club moving to Anaheim as the California Angels, Cedric became Vice-President of Operations, helping to oversee the construction of Anaheim Stadium.

Tallis joined the Kansas City Royals in January 1968 during the formative season preceding their entry into the American League. Serving as Vice-President and General Manager, Tallis engineered a series of successful drafts and trades that molded the Royals into the winningest expansion franchise in history.
The opening of Royals Stadium was one of the highlights of Tallis' stay in Kansas City and he oversaw the refurbishing of the 'new' Yankee Stadium in 1975-76. With those remarkable feats in hand, Tallis has had an association with the three most modern and beautiful new parks in the league.

Tallis, who attended Concord (New Hampshire) College, enlisted in the Army in 1940 and received a commission after Infantry Officer Candidate School in 1941, serving in the Aleutian Campaign and in the European Theatre. He left the army as a Major in 1948."

-1983 New York Yankees Information Guide


BILL BERGESCH (Vice-President of Baseball Operations)
"As the Yankees Vice-President of Baseball Operations, Bill Bergesch works closely with Clyde King, Gene Michael and Cedric Tallis in providing Manager Billy Martin the talent he needs on the field to produce another AL pennant and World Championship.
Bill is in his second stint with the Yankees. From 1963 through 1967 he served as traveling secretary and as stadium manager. From 1968 to 1977 he was president of Small Business Investment Company in Manhattan. He returned to the Yankees in 1978 as Director of Scouting and in 1980 was named Vice-President of Baseball Operations.
Bergesch began his career with the St. Louis Cardinals organization following his graduation from Washington University in St. Louis. He began as general manager in Albany, Georgia, and also worked in Winston Salem, North Carolina, Columbus, Georgia, and Omaha, Nebraska. In 1959 and 1960 he served as scouting coordinator in St. Louis.
He moved to the Kansas City Athletics as assistant general manager in 1962 and worked with the New York Mets as the farm and scouting director, setting up farm clubs and hiring scouts for the new expansion team."

-1983 New York Yankees Information Guide