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Charles Stoneham "Chub" Feeney (August 31, 1921 — January 10, 1994) was an American front office executive in Major League Baseball and president of the National League (NL) during a 40-plus year career in baseball. Born in Orange, New Jersey, into a baseball family, Feeney was the grandson of Charles Stoneham, principal owner of the New York Giants from until his death in 1936, and the nephew of Horace Stoneham, who owned the team from 1936 through 1976 and transferred it to San Francisco in 1958. Feeney began his association with the Giants as a batboy, and after his graduation from Dartmouth College and military service during World War II he joined the team's front office at the age of 24 as vice president in 1946. Although he never held the official title of general manager, Feeney would function as head of the Giants' baseball operations department for almost 24 years. ==Two pennants in Manhattan== The postwar Giants were a second-division team of slow-footed sluggers with poor fielding and mediocre pitching. On July 16, 1948, Stoneham and Feeney made a dramatic change. They replaced manager Mel Ott, a popular, Hall of Fame hitter and lifelong Giant, with the controversial and abrasive Leo Durocher, who had been managing their interborough rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Asked by Stoneham to evaluate his new team, Durocher, no sentimentalist, reportedly replied: "Back up the truck" — meaning wholesale changes were needed. Within 1½ years — and with the decision to follow Brooklyn in breaking the color line — Durocher, Stoneham and Feeney's front office had built the Giants into a hard-playing, balanced team of pitching, hitting, speed and defense. In 1951, the Giants battled back from a 13½ game deficit on August 11, winning 37 of their last 44 games to force a best-of-three pennant playoff with Brooklyn. After splitting the first two games, the Giants overcame one last hurdle — a 4-1, ninth-inning Brooklyn lead in Game 3 — to beat the Dodgers on Bobby Thomson's three-run home run, baseball's version of the "Shot Heard 'Round the World." The Giants had won their first National League pennant since 1937, but they dropped the 1951 World Series in six games to the New York Yankees. Brooklyn dominated the NL for the next two seasons, but, in 1954, Durocher's Giants — led by batting champion Willie Mays and the runner-up, Don Mueller — emerged as champions, winning the pennant by five games. They drew the Cleveland Indians, who had set an American League record by winning 111 games, as their opponents in the 1954 World Series. But the Giants won in four straight games, highlighted by Mays' game-saving catch of Vic Wertz' long drive in Game 1, the clutch hitting of obscure outfielder and pinch hitter Dusty Rhodes, and effective pitching from four different starters. Unfortunately, the 1954 Fall Classic was the last highlight of the Giants' 70-plus year history in New York. Attendance plunged in the years that immediately followed, and after Durocher's resignation in 1955 to become a "Game of the Week" baseball broadcaster, the team played poorly. By 1957, owner Stoneham had decided to leave for greener pastures, ultimately choosing San Francisco as the team's destination to preserve its historic rivalry with the Dodgers, who simultaneously moved to Los Angeles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chub Feeney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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