1. Larry Baer is best known as the president and chief executive officer of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.
15 Facts About Larry Baer
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Larry Baer served as the sports director and business manager of KALX, the student-run radio station.
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Larry Baer graduated from Berkeley with a degree in political science in 1980.
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Larry Baer left the Giants to attend Harvard Business School and earned his MBA in 1985.
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At CBS, Larry Baer worked as an assistant to the network's then-CEO and chairman Laurence Tisch.
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Larry Baer returned to the Giants in 1992 to help form the ownership group that kept the team in San Francisco when an attempt was made to move the franchise to Tampa, Florida.
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Larry Baer led the design and development of a new ballpark for the Giants starting in 1995.
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In 1994, Larry Baer established the first benefit by a professional sports team to fight AIDS.
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In 1995, Larry Baer received the Sports Torch of Learning Award from the Scopus Society of the American Friends of the Hebrew University.
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Larry Baer succeeded Bill Neukom as the Giants' chief executive officer on January 1,2012.
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Larry Baer was added to the board of directors of the San Jose Giants, the Giants' Minor League Baseball affiliate in the Class A-Advanced California League, in April 2012.
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In 2014, Larry Baer received an "Excellence in Achievement" award from UC Berkeley and a Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee San Francisco.
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Larry Baer is married to Pamela Baer; they have four children and live in San Francisco.
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Larry Baer was suspended by MLB and returned to the team on July 2,2019.
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Larry Baer was a board member of JCC of San Francisco and sits on the Boys and Girls Clubs of America Pacific Region Board of Trustees.