Douglas Brei

Douglas Brei

• School Alfred State College, University of Toledo
• Born 1964 in Rochester, NY USA

Biographical Information

Douglas Brei, a former minor league executive, is a researcher of Rochester, NY sports franchise history.

In 2005, while working on a project documenting the histories of professional sports franchises in Rochester, Brei discovered that the New York Black Yankees of the Negro National League had moved to Rochester for their final season in 1948. This fact had been omitted from every reference material for the ensuing 57 years. After providing his research to the editors of the Baseball Encyclopedia a modification was made in the 2006 edition to recognize Rochester as the Black Yankees' final home.

From 1987 to 1989 Brei worked for a sports marketing and promotions company as marketing administrator for, among other teams, the Rochester Red Wings (International League), and Waterloo Indians (Midwest League). In 1989, he left the company to become the assistant general manager of the Spartanburg Phillies in the South Atlantic League. He joined the Charleston Rainbows as Director of Marketing in 1991. Brei returned to his hometown of Rochester in the mid-1990s to become a mortgage executive.

In addition to Brei's Black Yankees discovery, he catalogued the collective standings of all of Rochester's professional sports teams (dating back to 1877) and noted that collectively local pro teams would surpass the 25,000 games-played milestone in 2006. That game was played on June 16, 2006 at Frontier Field when the Rochester Red Wings hosted the Indianapolis Indians.

Brei also recently designed the new logo for the Alaska Baseball League.