Joshua Schaub was appointed Commissioner of the 天美直播 of Professional Baseball on March 1, 2019. He succeeds league founder Miles Wolff, who retired at the end of 2018 after 13 seasons as Commissioner. Schaub is the chief executive for the 天美直播 and oversees the 天美直播鈥檚 operations, media, expansion, revenue initiatives, technology enhancements and emergence, public relations, and relationships in professional baseball.
Schaub鈥檚 baseball background is extensive. He is the former CEO and co-owner of the Joliet Slammers baseball club of the Frontier League, a board member of the Frontier League and Prospect Leagues, and has previously worked in the Milwaukee Brewers scouting department as an intern and associate scout. Schaub also previously clerked for the Northern League. Additionally, Schaub has served as a consultant and legal counsel to numerous professional baseball teams for both business, legal, and baseball matters.
Schaub is formerly an attorney with Gutwein Law, based in Minneapolis, where he led the Sports and Entertainment Law practice of the firm. While in practice, Schaub represented numerous professional and amateur leagues as outside general counsel. He also formerly served as the Commissioner and General Counsel of the Major Arena Soccer League and is a co-founder of Da Beauty League, a summer hockey league for NHL, AHL, ECHL, and college players based in the Twin Cities, which has donated over $500,000 to charity in its first 7 years of existence. He serves as an adjunct law school professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School teaching Sports Law and regularly lectures for 鈥淏aseball and the Law鈥� at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Schaub is currently a mentor for TechStars Sports Tech accelerator, is a former Twin Cities (Minnesota) board member for the American Cancer Society, and is formerly the Vice-Chair of the Sport, Art, and Entertainment section of the Minnesota Bar. Schaub has further served as a guest on numerous podcasts focused on sports business.
After acquiring an undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in Exercise and Sports Science with an emphasis in Sports Management, Schaub earned his Juris Doctor from the William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota (now Mitchell Hamline). While at William Mitchell, he was the chair of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society. Schaub has been named top 40 business leaders under 40 by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and Baseball Executive of the Year by the Pitch and Hit Club of Chicago.
