Editing Pioneer League (baseball) (section)

== Organization ==

Mike Shapiro is the current president of the Pioneer Baseball League, having been a senior executive in a wide range of professional sports including baseball, golf, basketball and hockey.<ref name="staff">{{cite web |title=Pioneer League staff |url=https://www.milb.com/pioneer/league/staff-directory |website=Pioneer League |publisher=Minor League Baseball |access-date=January 30, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

Jim McCurdy is the commissioner<ref name="staff" /> and a past president of the Pioneer Baseball League. McCurdy received his BBA from the [[University of Houston]] in 1970 and his JD from the [[University of Texas School of Law]] in 1974. He mediated the restructure of Minor League Baseball's governing structure in 1992 and was an inaugural member of the MiLB board of trustees from 1992 to 1994. In 1993, he was appointed by the president of MiLB to serve on the Professional Baseball Executive Council. McCurdy was elevated to the position of league president in 1994, replacing Ralph Nelles who was the president from 1975 to 1993. McCurdy also teaches sports law courses at [[Gonzaga University School of Law]] and the [[University of San Diego School of Law]]. His publications include: Sports Law: Cases & Materials (with Ray Yasser, C. Peter Goplerud, and Maureen Weston) (7th ed. LexisNexis 2011),<ref name="pubs">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tjsl.edu/directory/james-r-mccurdy|title=James R. McCurdy|date=December 11, 2015|language=en|access-date=August 11, 2016|website=[[Thomas Jefferson School of Law]]}}</ref> ''Thunder on the Road from Seattle to Oklahoma City: Going from NOPA to ZOPA in the NBA, in'' Legal Issues in American Basketball ch. IV (Lewis Kurlantzick ed., Academica Press 2011),<ref name="pubs" /> and, ''The Fundamental Nature of Professional Sports Leagues, Constituent Clubs, & Mutual Duties to Protect Market Opportunities: Organized Baseball Case Study, in'' Legal Issues in Professional Baseball ch. IV (Lewis Kurlantzick ed., Academica Press 2005).<ref name="pubs" />