Chatting with Sandy Alderson (Part 1)
Monday, June 16, 2008by Geoff Young
This is the first of a three-part interview with San Diego Padres CEO Sandy Alderson. Big thanks to Mr. Alderson for taking time out of his busy schedule to make himself available, and also to his assistant, Dayle Tedrow, for her indispensable assistance in making this happen.
Sandy Alderson has been CEO of the San Diego Padres since May 2005. Before then he served as general manager of the Oakland A's from 1983 to 1997, where he led that franchise to a World Series title in 1989 and mentored one of today's more noteworthy GMs, his successor, Billy Beane. After leaving Oakland, Alderson went to work at the MLB offices in New York, where his duties included, among many other things, finding ways to speed up ...
