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The National League president was the chief executive of the National League of professional baseball until 1999, when the NL and the American League merged into Major League Baseball.

National League presidents

Morgan Bulkeley, the first president of the National League
Key
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Name Year(s) Ref(s)
Morgan Bulkeley 1876
William Hulbert 1877–1882
Arthur Soden 1882
Abraham G. Mills 1883–1884
Nicholas Young 1885–1902
Harry Pulliam 1903–1909
John Heydler 1909
Thomas Lynch 1910–1913
John K. Tener 1913–1918
John Heydler 1918–1934
Ford C. Frick 1934–1951
Warren Giles 1951–1969
Chub Feeney 1970–1986
A. Bartlett Giamatti 1986–1989
Bill White 1989–1994
Leonard S. Coleman, Jr. 1994–1999

Honorary president

Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL.

Key
Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Name Years Ref
Bill Giles 2001–present

See also

References

  1. Chass, Murray (September 16, 1999). "BASEBALL; League Presidents Out as Baseball Centralizes". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "A Baseball Debt That's Long Overdue". CNN. February 26, 1990. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013.
  3. "A. G. Mills - SABR". sabr.org. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  4. ^ Time. November 19, 1934 https://web.archive.org/web/20101125082651/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,847368,00.html. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vzpJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bQkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2814,1681764&dq=frick+giles&hl=en
  6. ^ "St. Joseph Gazette - Google News Archive Search". google.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  7. ^ "Ludington Daily News - Google News Archive Search". google.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  8. ^ Martinez, Michael (February 4, 1989). "Bill White a Unanimous Choice to Head National League". The New York Times.
  9. KAMIN, ARTHUR Z. (March 6, 1994). "New Jersey Q & A: Leonard S. Coleman Jr.; A New Leader in Baseball's Hierarchy - New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  10. ^ Chass, Murray (September 16, 1999). "BASEBALL; League Presidents Out As Baseball Centralizes". The New York Times.
  11. "Transactions". The New York Times. June 14, 2001.
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