Harvey Schiller

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Harvey Schiller has been a vice president of Turner Sports, chief executive of YankeeNets, vice chair of the America's Cup 2013 Advisory Board^[1] and president of the International Baseball Federation.

Biography

Schiller is a 1960 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Michigan.^{[citation needed]}

He was one of the executives in charge of World Championship Wrestling, while president of Turner Sports. Harvey Schiller is best known as the supervisor of Eric Bischoff, then-president of WCW. He once appeared on the wrestling show WCW Monday Nitro, on a famous occasion when he suspended Bischoff from WCW in March 1997.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[2] In 2009 he was replaced by Riccardo Fraccari as head of the IBAF.

References

↑ David Cushnan (21 August 2013). Tragedy, politics, controversy and farce - now can the America’s Cup get back on course?. SportsPro. Accessed September 2013.
↑ Barry M. Bloom (2 March 2007). Schiller named new IBAF president. MLB.com. Accessed September 2013.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Aldo Notari	President of the International Baseball Federation 2007–2009	Succeeded by Riccardo Fraccari

v t e Southeastern Conference commissioners

Martin Sennet Conner (1940–1946) N. W. Dougherty (1946–1948) Bernie Moore (1948–1966) Tonto Coleman (1966–1972) H. Boyd McWhorter (1972–1986) Harvey Schiller (1986–1989) Roy Kramer (1990–2002) Michael Slive (2002– )

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Name	Schiller, Harvey
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Short description	American sports executive
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