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FRONT OFFICE john schuerholz

Vice Chairman, Emeritus
Named Vice Chairman During Schuerholz’s time with Kansas City, the
Emeritus by the Braves in Royals won one World Championship, two American
2018, John Schuerholz is in League pennants and six division crowns. The Sporting
MANAGER & STAFF in Atlanta. He served as club president for eight and- Year in 1985, when Kansas City won the World Series.
his 56th year in professional
News selected him as the Major League Executive of the
baseball and his 31st season

Schuerholz was inducted into the Braves Hall of
Fame in August 2016 and the Georgia Sports Hall of
a-half years before being named vice chairman in
As president and then as vice chairman,
ored with the Outstanding Achievement in Baseball
March 2016. Fame in February 2015. In January 2014, he was hon-
Schuerholz was instrumental in the planning and build- Award by the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation.
ing of Truist Park and the mixed-use development, The He was inducted into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame in
Battery Atlanta, which opened in April 2017. 2008 and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum recog-
PLAYER BIOS December 2016, when he was elected to the National nized John as the National League Executive of the Year
Schuerholz received the game’s highest honor in
with its Andrew “Rube” Foster Award in 2001, 2002 and
Baseball Hall of Fame. He was formally inducted into
the illustrious club at Cooperstown, N.Y., on July 30, 2005. After the Braves’ 1991 worst-to-first performance,
Schuerholz was named the Executive of the Year by UPI,
2017. the Boston Writers Association and the Maryland Tops
Following 26 years as a Major League general
manager, from 1982 to 2007, Schuerholz stepped in Sports group, Executive of the Year by the Georgia
Securities Association and Georgian of the Year by
SEASON IN REVIEW aside as GM after the 2007 season and was named Georgia Trend Magazine.

Schuerholz has served on a variety of Major League
president of the Braves on October 11, 2007. He spent
Baseball's committees throughout his career, including
17 seasons as the Braves’ executive vice president and
being appointed by then-Commissioner "Bud" Selig to
general manager, from 1991 to 2007.

Schuerholz came to the Braves from the Kansas
three years, the committee oversaw the implementation
City Royals in October 1990. Under his leadership and chair the newly-formed Instant Replay Committee. In
of expanded replay, creating a modernized, effective
guidance as a GM, the Braves achieved unprecedented
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT success, compiling the best record in baseball over system for replay reviews. Schuerholz has also served as
chairman of the Pace of Game Committee, and on the
those 17 seasons from 1991 to 2007 (1,594-1,092;
.593). The Braves established an American professional
Playing Rules Committee.
A native of Baltimore, Schuerholz left a job as a
sports record by winning 14 consecutive division titles

from 1991 to 2005 (the 1994 season was not played to
junior high school teacher to join the Orioles in 1966.
The Braves won five National League pennants,
completion). He moved to Kansas City two years later, and as an
administrative assistant, was involved in the expansion
one World Series and several organization of the year draft that created the first ever Royals roster. He was
BRAVES HISTORY under Schuerholz, including five times in seven sea- Farm Director in 1975. He was promoted to director of
awards. The club won 100-or-more games six times
named Assistant Farm Director in 1970 and became
sons from 1997 to 2003.
player procurement and development in 1976 and vice

president-player personnel in 1979. The Royals named
During his career with Baltimore, Kansas City and
Atlanta, Schuerholz has been associated with three
World Champions (1966, 1985 and 1995), eight pennant Schuerholz executive vice president and general man-
ager in October of 1981, when he was 41.
winners and 20 division crowns. In 2004, to honor his Born October 1, 1940, Schuerholz is a graduate of
nearly 40 years of success at the major league level, Towson (MD) University, where he played soccer and
OPPONENTS tigious Lifetime Achievement Award. Atlanta’s overall and the school’s Athlete of the Year in 1962. He was
Baseball America named him the recipient of the pres-
baseball. He was an all-conference choice in baseball
success in 2005 also helped the Braves earn Baseball
inducted into Towson’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973
America’s prestigious Organization of the Year award. and served on the school’s Board of Visitors. Towson’s
baseball facility is named John Schuerholz Park.
When the Braves won the 1995 World Series,
Schuerholz became the first executive to be general Schuerholz’s book, “Built to Win: Inside Stories and
manager of world championship teams in both the Leadership Strategies from Baseball’s Winningest GM,”
was released in the spring of 2006.
American and National Leagues. In his 26 years as
MISCELLANEOUS a general manager with Kansas City and Atlanta, his and Jonathan, and four grandchildren. Jonathan has
He and his wife, Karen, have two children, Gina
teams totaled an amazing 2,348 wins.
been in the Braves organization since 2002.
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