SEATTLE -- After 42 years in Major League Baseball, including the last 20 with the Mariners, executive vice president of business operations Bob Aylward announced on Monday that he's retiring.
Aylward, 66, has overseen the communications and broadcasting departments of the Mariners, as well as the club's revenue producing efforts, including corporate sponsorships, ticket sales and advertising for the past two decades.
Aylward previously worked for the Orioles and Rays after earning his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt and attending Ohio University's graduate program for sports administration, getting his start selling season tickets in Baltimore in 1976 and moving his way up the ladder to leadership positions with three different MLB clubs.