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- <title>
- Jan. 24, 1994: Died:Charles Stoneham ("Chub") Feeney
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jan. 24, 1994 Ice Follies
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 27
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- <p> DIED. CHARLES STONEHAM ("Chub") FEENEY, 72, former president
- of baseball's National League; of a heart attack; in San Francisco.
- He never played an inning, but Chub Feeney was around baseball
- all his life. Three years before Chub's birth, in 1921, his
- grandfather acquired the New York Giants. By the '50s, he was
- in essence the Giants' general manager, and he oversaw their
- World Series win over the Indians in 1954, their National League
- pennant victories of '51 and '62, and the team's epochal move
- from the Bronx to San Francisco's Candlestick Park in 1958.
- In 1970 he was named National League president, a post he held
- till 1986. When he got the job, the new president observed that
- after a lifetime as a Giants partisan, "I've got to remind myself
- that I'm the only guy in the ball park who is there to root
- for the umpire."
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