Jack F. Bair
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

Jack Bair is considered to be one of Major League Baseball's brightest executives and has played a critical leading role in many of the most important club initiatives in his 16 years with the Giants. Bair plays many roles with the Giants, including serving as its chief legal officer, managing governmental relations and handling a variety of special projects.

Bair currently leads the effort to develop property located immediately south of the ballpark into a mixed-use project consisting of office, housing, retail, exhibition, open space and parking. Bair played a central part in the Giants successful effort to develop AT&T Park. Bair led the effort to select the ballpark site and formulate the ballpark design. Bair ran the political and public affairs campaign to win voter approval for the ballpark. He wrote and produced the award-winning campaign video and served as the campaign's principal spokesperson. Bair also negotiated the ballpark real estate transaction and the successful effort to gain all of the local, regional, state and federal governmental approvals necessary to construct and open the ballpark on time for the 2000 season. Bair also coordinated ballpark improvement projects in Arizona, the Dominican Republic and Candlestick Park and developed China Basin Park and its historical elements at McCovey Point.

Bair participates actively in the club's Latin American Operations and conceived of, planned and led the Giants efforts to renovate fields at an orphanage in the Alou family's hometown in the Dominican Republic. His creative suggestions led to several of AT&T Park's unique features, such as the publicly accessible Port Walk behind the Right Field fence, the perched arcade seating area and the Ferry Terminal at Seals Plaza. His father's old-time glove served as the model for the world's largest baseball glove in the Coca-Cola Fan Lot. Bair is also credited with launching the Giants Community Fund field renovation program and suggesting one of the more clever baseball advertising programs in the 1990's, placing signage for the "GAP" clothing retailer on outfield fences in what in baseball parlance is referred to as "the Gap." Prior to joining the Giants, Bair worked as a Deputy City Attorney for San Francisco. He was assigned to direct the legal effort to save the Giants in 1992 from being sold and relocated to Florida. Prior to working for the City, Bair practiced law at the San Francisco firm of Farella, Braun & Martel. Bair serves as an officer of the Giants Community Fund, the San Francisco Bowl Game Association (Emerald Bowl) and the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation and serves on the Board of Managers of the Bayview/Hunter's Point YMCA and the Board of Trustees of the UC Davis Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and Yale Law School.


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