YAWKEY BASEBALL LEAGUE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board
• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member - at - Large

Cam Plank is the newest member of the board. Cam was voted as a member at large starting in 2024.

Job Titles:

• President Emeritus
• President of the Board of Directors

Dave McKay, of Dorchester, has served the Yawkey League as President since 1992. He manages the McKay Club Beacons of Dorchester. The team is named in memory of his parents. Dave was a two time Candidate for the Boston City Council in 1979 & 1987. He was a Catholic Educator at Saint Gregory & Saint Ambrose Parish Schools from 1978 to 1980. In 1981, Dave joined the faculty of his High School Alma Mater - Christopher Columbus Catholic Central HS. He served as a Social Study Instructor; Assistant Baseball Coach; Activities Coordinator and Development Director until the school was closed in 1991. In 1991, McKay was appointed to the Staff of Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, and has served Mayors Flynn, Tom Menino, and Marty Walsh as a Constituent Service Specialist for over 20 years. Dave's baseball life spans 45+ years. He was a coach in the Mill Stream Baseball League in Dorchester during his High School years. At 19, he took over the Mill Stream program and helped it develop into one of Boston's largest amateur baseball programs for youth & young men. He worked in that area for 15 years. The McKay Club has made the League Championship Series three times: 1992, 1998, and 2000. The McKay Club was the final opponent of the Colorado Silver Bullet Women's Baseball Team at Fenway Park in 1997, defeating them 5-2. Dave also was honored to manage five YBL All Star Games at Fenway Park. During McKay's presidency, which has lasted more than two decades, the YBL has returned to wood bats, held All-Star Games at Fenway Park (1992-2004, 2012, 2014), and strengthened its ties to the City of Boston and the Yawkey Foundation - Boston Trust. McKay also created a talk show on Local Comcast Community Access in 2006. The Boston Baseball Head Show covered all aspects of amateur & professional baseball. Dave also did the play-by-play and color commentary on YBL Games of the Week, which also aired on Comcast. Dave was inducted as a Builder into the Yawkey League Hall of Fame in November 2012.

Job Titles:

• Secretary
• Secretary of the Board of Directors
• Founder and Team President of the Somerville Highlander Alumni / Alibrandis Baseball Club

David Treska is the founder and team President of the Somerville Highlander Alumni / Alibrandis Baseball Club, founded in 1990. The team has won a record 14 Yawkey Baseball League Championships in the team's 25 year history. The club also enjoyed National Recognition, starting the 2003 Season as the 11th-ranked team in the United States and in 2010 as the top rated #1 team in the country by the National Semi-Pro Baseball Association. As a player, David was an 1988 Greater Boston League All Star in his senior season at Somerville High School and went on to captain the Bunker Hill Community College baseball team in 1989-1990. He later served as Assistant Coach at Newbury College in 1999 and as Head Coach at Bunker Hill from 2000 through 2002. In 2000, leading the Bunker Hill team to the Championship of the Yankee Small Conference. Treska first played for Henry's Baseball Club in the then Junior Park League in 1988 and '89. The following season David was granted a franchise in the newly named Yawkey Baseball League and started the Somerville Highlander Alumni Baseball Club. As a player he went on to win two Gold Gloves and play in six All Star games, three of which were at Fenway Park and was a member of eight of the team's YBL Championships. In 2013, David was selected for induction into the National Semi-Pro Baseball Hall of Fame. Dave has served on the Yawkey Baseball League Board of Directors since 1996 as Secretary, and has been instrumental in the continued growth of the league.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Treasurer
• Vice President

2022 marks Joe O'Hara's 40 th year with Al Thomas Club as a player, coach and manager, in addition to serving as team president, GM and franchise holder. During his time with the Al Thomas Club, they have won six championships in ten trips, including 2021's magical worst-to-first title. The A's have also won 19 division titles and made the playoffs in 23 of 25 years. In 2018 he rebuilt the team from scratch for a third time. A former 14-year manager and past president of the Milton Babe Ruth League and five-year coach of Milton Senior Babe Ruth, he has been on the YBL Board for 27 years in several capacities, including Membership Officer, Director of Fundraising, Member-at-Large, Director of Player Development and Communications, and his current roles as vice president and treasurer. A B.C. High and Boston College graduate, O'Hara worked in the B.C. High Development Office for seven years before moving on to serve eight years as Director of Development for James F. Farr Academy, Inc. in Cambridge, and then as grant writer for Partners Home Care. He currently serves as Northeast Area Director for Operation Homefront, a national nonprofit that serves veterans and military families. Additionally, he also serves as a fundraising consultant specializing in grant writing, golf tournaments and special events. O'Hara is also a member of the Sons of the Milton American Legion Post 114, Milton Kiwanis Club and Quincy Lodge of Elks #943, having recently been named its Citizen of the Year. In 2020, he was named Employee of the Year for Operation Homefront and was recently inducted into the Al Thomas Club Hall of Fame. He had previously been inducted into the Yawkey League Hall of Fame in 2013 and the National Semi Pro baseball Hall of Fame in 2016.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Administration

John Griffith has been a member of the Yawkey League since joining the Hyde Park Rangers in 1994. After a short stint with the Avi Nelson/West Roxbury Club, John joined the Brighton Black Sox in 2001. John took over as franchise holder and manager of the Black Sox in 2008. As a player John would be named to All-Star games in 1995 and 2002. Both games were played at Fenway Park. John is graduate of WPI where he was a member of the baseball team. After graduation, he began work as an engineer at Intellution. He now works at Cambridge Semantics as a Principal Engineer. John lives in Wellesley, MA with his wife Karen and their dogs Grey and Mabel.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Board of Directors
• Member - at - Large

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