Career in Minor Leagues
A native of Havana, Illinois, Hamey entered minor league baseball in 1925 as business manager of Class B Springfield of the Three-I League. In 1934 he joined the Yankees as front office boss of their Class A Binghamton Triplets club in the New York-Pennsylvania League. At the time, Weiss, who was then the Yankees' farm system director, was building a minor league organization that would rival, and perhaps surpass, the St. Louis Cardinals' pioneering system. After Hamey's success at Binghamton, Weiss transferred him to business manager of one of New York's two top-level farm clubs, the Kansas City Blues of the AA American Association. Stocked with Yankee prospects, the Blues were almost annually competitive in the prewar years and during World War II.
In 1945, Larry MacPhail, former general manager of the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers, shocked baseball when a syndicate he led purchased the Yankees from the estate of Jacob Ruppert. MacPhail simultaneously installed himself as general manager, blocking the paths of both Weiss and Hamey. While Weiss bided his time and remained as New York's farm director and vice president, Hamey departed to become president of the American Association.
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