Dick Walsh (Executive)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Richard Bishop Walsh, Jr. was an American sporting executive who, during a 50-plus year career, held high-level positions in Major League Baseball, professional soccer, and in convention center management. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, spent his early years in Evanston, Illinois, and moved to Los Angeles, California, with his family as a boy. Walsh's first career was in baseball. After attending Los Angeles High School, where he was an All-City third baseman in 1943, and military service during World War II, Walsh joined the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1948 as a member of the front office staff of the Fort Worth Cats, Brooklyn's farm club in the Class AA Texas League. He became the parent team's assistant minor league director, working under Fresco Thompson, in 1951