NEW YORK (AP) — Kevin McGuiness, a lawyer who has spent a decade heading a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C., has been hired as the No. 2 official of the Major League Baseball Players Association under new union head Tony Clark.
The union said Wednesday he will fill the post of chief operating officer, which had been vacant since Gene Orza retired in March 2011.
Former big league All-Star Tony Clark took over as head of the union in November following the death of Michael Weiner.
A graduate of the University of California at Irvine and George Washington Law School, McGuiness taught Renaissance history and English literature in Florence, Italy. He had been president of the McGuiness Group, a lobbying firm, since 2004. The firm represented the MLBPA along with the players’ unions of the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLS.
