Yankees GM Brian Cashman to Be Inducted Into Catholic University Athletics Hall of Fame
By Jackson Thompson
Yankees general manager Brian Cashman will be honored by his alma matter this spring. Catholic University will induct Cashman into the University's Athletics Hall of Fame on April 19.
Cashman, a graduate of the Catholic University class of 1989, was a four-year starter for the University's baseball team. As a second baseman and leadoff hitter, he set the single-season program record for hits with 52 in 1988.
Catholic University will induct Yankees GM Brian Cashman (Class of 1989) into its Athletics Hall of Fame on April 18. Cashman was a four-year starter at 2B and leadoff hitter. He batted .348 in 1988 and set the school record for hits in a season (52).
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His playing career overlapped with his first internship with the New York Yankees, which he obtained in 1986. Division III baseball allotted Cashman enough time to balance between playing, working in the Yankees minor league scouting department during the day and working security at night.
He landed his first job with the Yankees as a baseball operations assistant immediately upon his graduation in 1989. Nine years later, he became the second-youngest general manager in MLB history, and youngest in the Yankees history when George Steinbrenner promoted him to the position following the resignation of Bob Watson.
As a man of Irish Catholic descent, Cashman has already been honored in the Irish Catholic Community with his induction into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.