Ulice Payne

• School Marquette University

Biographical Information

Ulice Payne was the first African-American club president in Major League Baseball history. He had won a title with the Marquette basketball team in 1977 and threw out the first pitch for the 1978 Brewers on Opening Day. He had no other involvement in baseball until being appointed to the board of the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District. In 2002, he became president of the Milwaukee Brewers, but he had his contract bought out just one year later.

Sources

• 2002 MLB.com article
• 2003 MLB.com article