BOCA RATON, Fla. — Major League Baseball's general managers have become the brainy bunch.
Ivy in the major leagues these days isn't just a reference to Wrigley Field's vine-covered walls. Four GMs hired in the last two months have Ivy League backgrounds.
The 30 current GMs include four Harvard graduates, two each from Cornell and Dartmouth, and one apiece from Princeton and Penn. There are also grads of MIT, Amherst, Georgetown and Wesleyan, two law degrees from Harvard, two MBAs from Northwestern and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
"Bottom line is this is big business," said New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman, a history major who played baseball at Catholic University.