1. Charles Stoneham "Chub" Feeney was an American front office executive in Major League Baseball.
10 Facts About Chub Feeney
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Chub Feeney narrowly missed being elected Commissioner of Baseball in 1969.
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Chub Feeney was a respected figure among writers and fellow executives.
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Chub Feeney was a batboy for the Jersey City Giants, a farm team of the New York Giants, but that was the limit of his athletic career on the diamond.
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Chub Feeney passed the New York Bar exam in 1949 and by 1950, Feeney was in effect the general manager of the Giants.
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On July 16,1948, Stoneham and Chub Feeney made a dramatic change.
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Concurrently, Chub Feeney was being considered for prominent positions within Major League Baseball's hierarchy.
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Chub Feeney rallied NL owners to resist adoption of the designated hitter and presided over a period of stability, as the league neither expanded nor moved a franchise during his term.
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Chub Feeney died on January 10,1994, of a heart attack in San Francisco at the age of 72.
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Chub Feeney is interred at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo, California.