Rob Manfred
| Rob Manfred | |
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Manfred in 2014
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| 10th Commissioner of Baseball | |
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Assumed office January 25, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bud Selig |
| Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball | |
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In office September 28, 2013 – January 25, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Bob DuPuy |
| Succeeded by | Tony Petitti |
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| Born |
Robert D. Manfred, Jr. September 28, 1958 Rome, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University (B.S.) Harvard Law School (J.D.) |
| Employer | Major League Baseball |
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| Website | MLB Bio |
Robert D. "Rob" Manfred, Jr. (born September 28, 1958) is an American lawyer and business executive who is the tenth and current Commissioner of Baseball. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer of Major League Baseball and succeeded Bud Selig as Commissioner on January 25, 2015.
Manfred was born on September 28, 1958 in Rome, New York. He attended Rome Free Academy and graduated in 1976. Manfred enrolled at Le Moyne College from 1976 through 1978 before transferring to Cornell University. He graduated from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and Harvard Law School.
After law school, he clerked for Judge Joseph L. Tauro of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He became a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, focusing on labor and employment law.
In 1987, Manfred began working with Major League Baseball (MLB) during collective bargaining. During the 1994–95 MLB strike, he served as outside counsel for the owners. He joined MLB on a full-time basis in 1998, serving as the Executive Vice President of Economics and League Affairs. Manfred negotiated MLB's first drug testing agreement with the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) in 2002, and represented MLB in negotiations with the MLBPA when forming new collective bargaining agreements in 2002, 2006 and 2011. In 2013, Manfred led MLB's investigation of the Biogenesis scandal.
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