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Warren Crandall Giles (May 28, 1896 – February 7, 1979) was an American professional baseball executive. He spent 33 years in high-level posts in Major League Baseball, as club president and general manager of the Cincinnati Reds (1937–51) and president of the National League (1951–69), and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Born in Tiskilwa, Illinois,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://baseballhall.org/hof/giles-warren )〕 Giles attended Washington & Lee University〔(Sportsecyclopedia.com )〕 and served as an infantry officer in France during World War I. Before becoming a full-time baseball executive he worked as a football and basketball official in the Missouri Valley Conference, a major U.S. college sports league.〔 ==President/GM of the Cincinnati Reds== Giles was elected president of the Moline, Illinois, Plowboys baseball club in the Class B Three-I League at age 23 in 1919, beginning his 50-year career in baseball. He then joined the St. Louis Cardinals' organization and rose to prominence as the president and business manager of their top-level farm teams, the Syracuse Stars (1926–27) and Rochester Red Wings (1928–36) of the International League. As a foreshadowing of his most powerful position in professional baseball, Giles spent part of the 1936 season as president of the International League. Upon the recommendation of Cardinals' executive Branch Rickey, Powel Crosley, Jr., owner of the Cincinnati Reds, appointed Giles as his club's general manager and president on November 1, 1936, succeeding Larry MacPhail.〔(Armour, Mark, ''Warren Giles.'' SABR Biography Project )〕 While the 1937 Reds won only 56 games and slid into the basement of the National League, the edition improved by 26 games to finish in the first division, earning Giles the 1938 Major League Executive of the Year award from ''The Sporting News''. That season, on June 13, Giles swung one of the most successful trades in Cincinnati history, when he obtained starting pitcher Bucky Walters from the Philadelphia Phillies for catcher Spud Davis, pitcher Al Hollingsworth and cash. Walters would help lead the Reds of and to back-to-back National League championships. The 1939 Reds—with Walters winning 27 games and the league Most Valuable Player award—captured the NL pennant by 4½ games, but they were swept by the New York Yankees in the World Series. Unfazed, the 1940 Reds won 100 games (with Walters accounting for 22 victories and leading the NL in earned run average for a second straight season) to repeat as league champions by a 12-length margin. Then, behind Walters' two complete game victories, the Reds defeated the Detroit Tigers in a seven-game World Series for the second world title in modern club history. The Reds boasted .500 or above teams through , but declined beginning in and during the postwar era finished in the NL's second division and posted losing records for Giles' last seven seasons as the Reds' top executive.〔(Retrosheet )〕 Nevertheless Giles was a leading candidate to become baseball's third commissioner after Happy Chandler was fired in 1951. He was runner-up in the commissioner balloting to Ford Frick but succeeded Frick as president of the Senior Circuit on October 8, 1951.〔〔United Press International, February 8, 1979〕 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「Warren Giles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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