"Keeping the Yankees strong is the task which Yankee General Manager Roy Hamey has assumed. And, like Manager Ralph Houk, the proof is in the pudding after his first two years with a pair of pennants and World Championships. Strengthening the Yankee minor league operation is also the aim of Roy Hamey in a determined effort to keep top-flight talent coming to the club.
Roy has been in baseball 39 years and some 19 of these have been in the Yankee organization. He started in the game in 1925 as a minor league business manager and joined the Yanks nine years later, working up through the farm system. Later, he served as President of the American Association, general manager of both the Pittsburgh Pirates and Philadelphia Phillies, and twice as assistant GM of the Bombers."
-The New York Yankees Official 1963 Yearbook
"The front office chief of the World Champion New York Yankees, Roy H. Hamey, has virtually a lifetime of baseball experience. In fact, Roy has been in baseball longer (38 years) than the oldest Yankee, Yogi Berra (37 years).
Hamey and his field manager Ralph Houk head into the 1963 American League season looking for a third straight pennant and a third straight World Series championship. Past performances make this team a solid choice to accomplish this feat, but the last man to admit this is Hamey. Baseball, as a business, has been Roy's life, and nowhere along the line has success come easily.
Hamey started in the National League in 1925 when he served as the business manager of his hometown ball club in Springfield, Illinois. Nine years later he joined the New York Yankee organization for the first time and began a steady climb up through the farm system.
He left the Yankee organization for a while, becoming president of the American Association, at that time minor league baseball's number one circuit. Just last fall Hamey attended the convention in Rochester, N.Y., which resulted in the end of the old Triple-A circuit. American Association teams were absorbed by the Pacific Coast and International Leagues in an effort to strengthen baseball's minor league system.
General managership of the National League Pittsburgh and Philadelphia ball clubs are other important chapters of the Roy Hamey story. In between those two posts he served as assistant general manager of the Yankees. He assumed the general manager's position after the 1960 season and immediately began modelling what would be two championship outfits.
The scope of Hamey's operations in New York are not limited to the activities on American League fields alone. He is vitally concerned about every player in the Yankee farm system and is a firm believer in the Topping-Webb theory that world championship teams are first constructed in the minor leagues.
Just by watching Roy work one can appreciate his concern about the younger members of the Yankee organization. He was among the first of the Yankee front office executives to arrive in Fort Lauderdale (he was there before February 1) and spent many studious hours viewing the Yankee farmhands during New York's rookie camp at Fort Lauderdale Stadium."
-1963 New York Yankees Official Spring Guidebook and Scorecard (Fort Lauderdale Stadium)
DAN TOPPING JR. (Assistant General Manager)
"This is the first year that Dan Topping Jr. has served as assistant to the general manager. He has had excellent training for his new position, serving in several capacities at Yankee Stadium. Last year he was the highly successful GM of the Ft. Lauderdale Yankees, helping his club win the Florida State League title."
-The New York Yankees Official 1963 Yearbook
J. ARTHUR FRIEDLUND (Secretary and General Counsel)
"A highly successful Chicago attorney, Art Friedlund has served as secretary and general counsel of the Yankees since the start of the Topping-Webb regime. Director and counsel for many important firms in the country, he finds time to see and represent the Yankees throughout the championship season."
-The New York Yankees Official 1963 Yearbook
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