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Jeff Moorad
CEO of the Diamondbacks


This month, Jeff Moorad, the former big-hitter sports agent who was bringing in top dollar for his clients and now serving as the CEO of the Diamondbacks, welcomed the Open Door crew in for a look around his office.

From the Willie Mays jerseys hanging on the walls to the famous faces behind the picture frames on the shelves, a couple of moments in Moorad’s office is a dream come true for any baseball aficionado. However, there was one photo about which Mr. Moorad had a lot to say (number 10).

“This is probably one of the most interesting pictures. This was back when Will Clark was a free agent in 1993 and we signed with the Texas Rangers. They were still building the stadium. If you know anything about baseball – or for that matter, politics – you’ll see a younger looking agent, the managing general partner of the Rangers at the time who went on to great fame [referring to now-President George Bush], my client Will Clark … Tom Schieffer who is now the Ambassador to Japan.”

Moorad is truly living a charmed life and a few minutes with the affable D-Backs leader, leaves one believing the best may be yet to come.

1. The only non-baseball related memorabilia is a Rolling Stones autographed guitar. “I got it at a charity auction. A lot of people struggled with Mick Jagger’s autograph so I decided to buy a picture to help them out.”
2. Young Presidents Organization rocking chair. “That’s my graduation gift from the YPO, which I have been active in for nine years. They boot you out when you’re 50.”
3. View of the Rotunda.
4. Grandfather’s baseball uniform from 1914. “My grandfather played for the Modesto Reds and then went on to become the president of the team, which is particularly meaningful to me these days. The story goes that he was offered a Major League job in 1916 and turned it down because he had to support his family, and back then the pay wasn’t the same as it is today.”
5. “This is a game-used jersey that Willie [Mays] wore for the New York Giants back in 1957 and Willie was my favorite player when I was growing up – rooting for him when he played for the San Francisco Giants. So I bought that at an auction and everybody wants to know these days if they are authenticated. So I brought Willie in, and he authenticated it.”
6. (Out of view) Lou Gehrig’s photo and thank you card to his doctor. “A note from Gehrig to one of his doctors. I’m sure you can appreciate the significance of that.”
7. Bipartisan presidential replica desk. ”It’s a bipartisan desk, if you will notice – from Kennedy to Bush. I will never forget – my wife and I went to the Oval Office about two years ago. When we walked in she said, ‘That’s your desk! But it’s clean!"
8. Copy of The Times.
9. Shoal given to him by Jeffrey Hammonds during his graduation from Stanford. “He gave shoals to three people – his father, his college coach and me. Because we were the three that he committed to go back and graduate when he first signed on a year short of graduation.”
10. Signing Will Clark with the Texas Rangers.
11. “Here is a photo of Will Clark and me when I made him the highest paid player in baseball in1990.”
12. Baseball Weekly cover with Matt Williams.
13. Baseball Weekly cover with Manny Ramirez.
14. Autographed photo of actor Robert Wuhl who played a sports agent on the hit HBO show Arliss.
15. He is a “proud member” of Sheriff’s Joe Arpaio’s “posse.”
16. His three boys in their little league uniforms.
17. Photo of him with his father during his opening day as CEO in 2005.
18. VIP and Clubhouse pass from when they played the Nationals. “This was the first game ever played in Washington with the Nationals. And the president came to our clubhouse before the game.”
19. Oakley – as in the sunglasses – board photo. “This is the board of directors at Oakley. We just sold the company to Luxottica – so now it’s the largest sunglasses company in the world.”
20. Jeff Moorad with “The Gover’nator.”
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