Farhan Zaidi

Farhan Zaidi
Baseball Executive
Born: (1976-11-11) November 11, 1976 (age 48)
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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Farhan Zaidi (born November 11, 1976) is a Canadian baseball executive who was formerly the president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). Zaidi also served as General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Assistant General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Zaidi is one of two Muslim executives in Major League Baseball.[1] He was the first Muslim and first Pakistani-American and subsequently first South Asian-American[2] general manager in Major League Baseball.[3] He was the first Muslim to run a major North American sports team.

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