Johnny Johnson, a longtime executive with the New York Yankees, served as baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn’s chief administrator and, as president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, led a resurgence in minor-league baseball.
Johnson, who began his career as a $50-a-week stenographer, spent 24 years with the Yankees as a business manager, farm director, personnel director and general manager, during a period when the franchise won 18 pennants and 12 World Series.
Class of 2007