EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Teamwork: A Way
Of Life Tim Mead's
Now Bringing Here
L.A. Angels Communications/VP
To Succeed Idelson After Induction
By JIM KEVLIN • www.AllOTSEGO.com Exclusive
COOPERSTOWN – Tim Mead, who will become the seventh president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame following this year’s Induction on July 21, has been a team player in the front office at the Los Angeles Angels for four decades.
But for the Angels’ vice president/communications, team playing didn’t start there.
When young Tim was a sophomore at San Gorgonio High School in San Bernadino, he tried out for the Spartans varsity baseball team. He tried out again when he was a junior.
When he was a senior, he made the cut, but just barely. The team was waiting for a player to finish the basketball season, and when he did, Mead and another player were bumped.
He was standing out in the rain when he got the news, he remembers.
