Template talk:Person-team-executive

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What makes a team executive significant? That's perhaps harder than a league exec. Anyway, some ideas:

• Person already has a page in the wiki for some other reason.
• Person was team president or general manager for some (minimal) period of time (somebody help me with this; it's harder than it looks).
• Person was an individual owner. (I'm not too sure about this one; see below)
• Person won a national award as a team exec.
• Person held leadership role (chairman, assistant GM, VP, etc) for five or more seasons.
• Person held non-leadership role (secretary, organist, groundskeeper, etc) for fifteen or more seasons.

Some Midwest League examples for your consideration (feel free to add others):

• Jerry Klinkowitz was one of the board member/owners of the Waterloo club for 17 years or so; he's written three books which were clearly based on that experience. I'll probably create a page for him, as one of his books is explicitly about the Waterloo team.
• Bill Stavropoulos is president of the foundation which owns the Great Lakes team, but has no office with the team itself. A borderline case, to my eye, if those are the only facts under discussion.
• Archie Griffin and Magic Johnson have been among the owners of the Dayton franchise since it joined the league in 2000. I probably wouldn't list them here, but I can see a case to do so.
• Doris Krucker was Burlington's Secretary for about 20 years, and was Minor League Women's Executive of the Year. Obviously needs a page.
• Bud Curran was the Head Groundskeeper at Cedar Rapids from 1949 to 2001. Seems like that's noteworthy, but I'm not expecting many groundskeepers in the wiki.
• Dave Walker has held nearly every title the Burlington team has to offer, has been an MWL VP forever, has had NAPBL office, and was King of Baseball in 2007-08. Obviously he deserves a page. He's the guy set me thinking about this.
• Mike Vanderwood was broadcaster for Lansing, then later for a long term at Dayton. I'd list him, but what about the intern who did webcasts for Battle Creek in 2005?

The Midwest League's teams have had virtually every sort of ownership structure you can imagine, as a result, hundreds of people have legitimate ownership claims, many of them long-term and with real equity (or sweat equity) invested. We don't want to list all of them, but we do want to list some.

Many team executives serve apprenticeships--begin as an intern or a groundskeeper, move to the merchandizing directorship, get appointed assistant GM, then succeed to the General Manager position. This pattern is worth documenting, but it's not worth the effort to list every intern or every sales associate.

Enough, for now. Any discussion? --jowo 14:03, 12 April 2009 (EDT)