James Gerald "Lou" Gorman was an American baseball executive, and the former general manager of the Seattle Mariners and Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.
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16 Facts About Lou Gorman
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Lou Gorman spent more than three decades in baseball operations, as a general manager, assistant GM, farm system director or scouting director, and at the time of his death he was the Red Sox' executive consultant for public affairs with an emphasis on community projects.
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Lou Gorman was the coordinator of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, to which he was inducted in 2002.
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Lou Gorman then served in the United States Navy, including more than eight years of active duty and two tours in Korea.
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Lou Gorman resumed his baseball career in 1962 as an executive in the minor leagues when he became general manager with the Class D Lakeland Giants in the San Francisco Giants' system, then, in 1963 with the Single-A Kinston Eagles in the Pittsburgh Pirates' chain.
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Lou Gorman joined the Baltimore Orioles' Major League front office in 1964 as assistant farm system director, working under Harry Dalton.
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Lou Gorman was promoted to director of player development in 1966, when the Orioles won their first World Series championship.
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In 1968, Lou Gorman became the first farm system director in the history of the Kansas City Royals, where he eventually assumed control of the team's scouting department.
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Lou Gorman was named a vice president of baseball operations in the Boston front office on February 2,1984; then, four months later, when the legal case was settled, he was officially appointed vice president and general manager, succeeding co-owner Haywood Sullivan, who moved up to chief executive officer.
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When Lou Gorman took on the general manager job June 6, the Red Sox already had players like Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs, Dwight Evans and Bob Stanley, stars that would form the nucleus of the talented Red Sox teams of the late 1980s.
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Lou Gorman made several key trades, such as picking up Nick Esasky and Rob Murphy from Cincinnati and getting closer Lee Smith for World Series goat Schiraldi and pitcher Al Nipper, but he made mistakes as well.
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The Boston farm system, which had produced players such as Mike Greenwell, Ellis Burks, Jody Reed and Todd Benzinger early in Lou Gorman's tenure, developed everyday players such as Mo Vaughn, John Valentin, Aaron Sele, Tim Naehring, Carlos Quintana and Scott Hatteberg in the early 1990s, but the flow of talent was not enough to keep the club at the forefront of its division.
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Some analysts are less critical of Lou Gorman making a deal to acquire Anderson, and more critical of Lou Gorman selecting Bagwell as the third base prospect to send to Houston rather than Scott Cooper.
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Lou Gorman was a senior vice president, then executive vice president, in the Red Sox' baseball operations department through 1996.
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Lou Gorman served as a member of the advisory board of the Baseball Assistance Team, a 501 non-profit organization dedicated to helping former Major League, Minor League, and Negro league players through financial and medical difficulties.
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Lou Gorman was inducted into the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985, the Stonehill College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1989, the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Newport Gulls Hall of Fame in 2010.
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