Stephen D. Greenberg, ‘70 was probably destined to build his career in the sports and media industries. The son of baseball Hall of Fame legend Hank Greenberg, Greenberg captained his Yale baseball team and was an All-Ivy and All-American goalie on his soccer team, and then spent five years playing professional baseball in the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers organization.
Greenberg earned his J.D. degree from the UCLA Law School in 1977, entering the field of sports and general business law with a Los Angeles firm. In 1990, he became deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball, working for Commissioner Francis “Fay” Vincent, Law ‘63. In this position, Greenberg oversaw all major day-to-day operations at MLB.
In 1993, Greenberg co-founded cable television’s Classic Sports Network, sold in 1997 to ESPN and renamed ESPN Classic. He also co-founded the all-college sports cable network CSTV-College Sports Television, launched in 2003 and sold in 2006 to CBS, INC.
Greenberg joined the prominent New York investment banking firm Allen & Company as a managing director in 2002. There he has advised on the sale or purchase of several Major League Baseball and NBA teams, the formation of regional sports networks, and the development of the MLB Network as well as the upcoming US Olympic Network.
