Harvey Schiller

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Dr. Harvey Schiller, formerly President of TBS Sports, Southeastern Conference commissioner, and CEO of YankeeNets is currently a member of the All American Football League and both the CEO and Chairman of GlobalOptions Group, an integrated risk mitigation firm. He is also the current President of the International Baseball Federation. He is a 1960 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.

He was once one of the executives in charge of World Championship Wrestling while president of "Turner Sports". Harvey Schiller was Eric Bischoff's boss, which was saying a lot, because during this time Bischoff always claimed He was head executive of WCW. He has appeared on the wrestling show WCW Monday Nitro, on a famous occasion he suspended Eric Bischoff from WCW.

In 2007 he was named as the new president of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF), the group that represents all the world's baseball federations.[1]

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  1. ^ Schiller named new IBAF president
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Commissioners of the Southeastern Conference
Martin S. Conner (1940-1946)  • N.W. Dougherty (1946-1948)  • Bernie Moore (1948-1966)  • A. M. "Tonto" Coleman (1966-1972)  • Dr. H. Boyd McWhorter (1972-1986)  • Dr. Harvey W. Schiller (1986-1989)  • Roy F. Kramer (1990-2002)  • Michael Slive (2002-present)
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