Old Boys Will Only Get You So Far

By my count, Clare has tried for at least two jobs in MLB without so much as a form email in response.  Part of the problem is her old man, who doesn’t have ties with guys in the ML.  Katy Feeney’s father did.

He was Charles “Chub” Feeney, onetime GM of the Giants and NL president.  His daughter, who died over the weekend, worked for MLB for some forty years, to become, according her obit by the Associated Press, “among the most prominent women in baseball.”  But don’t get too excited.  Katy Feeney didn’t have all that much power, even as a vice president.

Oh, Feeney had plenty of responsibility, both for media relations and the schedule; there’d be all sorts of headaches if somebody didn’t take care of these things.  You have to have a schedule every year, HOF inductees have to be introduced on the podium at Cooperstown, and Feeney handled these responsibilities well.  But did she have power, could she set policy?  Surely, you jest.