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Yankees: From backstop to MLB’s Chief Baseball Officer, he’s no ordinary Joe!

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Joe Torre is Major League Baseball’s chief baseball officer since 2011. He got there by playing baseball for four teams as a catcher and first baseman. He got there by managing five teams and bringing the New York Yankees six American League pennants and four World Series wins. He got there by being a calm, thinking baseball mind with a vast knowledge of the game.

On December 9, 2013, Joe Torre was notified that he was to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The long and often painful journey began in 1940 in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, New York when he was born the youngest of five to Joe Torre Sr and his mother, Margaret.