Irv Kaze, who in almost a half-century as a sports executive worked for
some of the most famous owners in sports, died June 29 in Glendale, CA.
He was 75.
His
family said that shortly after he completed his weekly radio show for
KRLA-AM, he had a heart attack in a restaurant. Kaze was born in Worcester,
Mass., and reared in Brooklyn and Jersey City and earned a journalism
degree from New York University.
In
his career, Kaze, a long-time member of the ASA, worked for George Steinbrenner
with the New York Yankees, Al Davis with the Oakland Raiders, Gene Autry
with the Los Angeles Angels and Branch Rickey with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
