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Mr. Shapiro comes from what some are heralding as the “First Family of Sports Management”. His seven children include, [[Mark Shapiro]], the General Manager and Vice President of the [[Cleveland Indians]], and, Julie Mangini, who is married to [[Eric Mangini]], Head Coach of the [[New York Jets]]. |
Mr. Shapiro comes from what some are heralding as the “First Family of Sports Management”. His seven children include, [[Mark Shapiro]], the General Manager and Vice President of the [[Cleveland Indians]], and, Julie Mangini, who is married to [[Eric Mangini]], Head Coach of the [[New York Jets]]. [http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-sp.schmuck07may07,1,4611701.column?ctrack=1&cset=true] |
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Background
Ronald M. Shapiro was born March 29, 1943 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He is a well-known sports agent, attorney, author, expert negotiator, educator, speaker, and civic leader. He attended Haverford College[1] and graduated Cum Laude from Harvard Law School in 1967.[2]
Career
After moving to Baltimore in 1967 for a federal clerkship, Mr. Shapiro began teaching law school in 1968. From 1972 to 1974 he served as Maryland State Securities Commissioner and earned a reputation as one of the most effective state investment officials in the nation. In 1972 he founded what is now known as Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler[3], a prominent Baltimore Law Firm. Subsequently, in 1976 Mr. Shapiro founded Shapiro, Robinson & Associates[4], a sports management firm. In 1995 he founded Shapiro Negotiations Institute,[5] a negotiation seminar and consulting firm that has trained over 250,000 professionals in the art of negotiation, dealing with difficult personalities, and enhancing listening skills. He is also the Special Advisor To The Owner of the Baltimore Ravens..[6]
USA TODAY called Ron Shapiro “one of baseball’s most respected agent-attorneys,” and THE SPORTING NEWS named him one of the “100 most powerful people in sports.” His impressive list of clients includes five of the “100 greatest major-league baseball players of the 20th century,” [7] including Hall of Famers’ Cal Ripken, Jr.[8], Jim Palmer[9], Brooks Robinson[10], Kirby Puckett[11], and Eddie Murray[12], who have benefited from the more than one billion dollars in contracts that Mr. Shapiro has negotiated. Mr. Shapiro’s current clients include, among others, 2006 American League Batting Champion and Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer[13]; Cleveland Indians pitcher Jake Westbrook[14]; Detroit Tigers 1st Baseman Sean Casey[15]; Cleveland Indians outfielder Trot Nixon[16] and Seattle Mariners outfielder Raul Ibanez.[17]
In October 1998, Mr. Shapiro’s book, THE POWER OF NICE: HOW TO NEGOTIATE SO EVERYONE WINS- ESPECIALLY YOU! (Revised Edition, 2001) was published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. THE POWER OF NICE® was excerpted in FORTUNE MAGAZINE and named one of the “Top Ten ‘On the Job’ Business Books of the Year” by the LIBRARY JOURNAL.[18] Mr. Shapiro’s recent book, BULLIES, TYRANTS & IMPOSSIBLE PEOPLE: HOW TO BEAT THEM WITHOUT JOINING THEM, was released by Crown Books (Random House) in June 2005 and made The Wall Street Journal’s Best Seller List in its first week of publication.[19] Mr. Shapiro’s forthcoming book, DARE TO PREPARE: HOW TO WIN BEFORE YOU BEGIN, will also be published by Crown in January 2008.[20]
Family
Mr. Shapiro comes from what some are heralding as the “First Family of Sports Management”. His seven children include, Mark Shapiro, the General Manager and Vice President of the Cleveland Indians, and, Julie Mangini, who is married to Eric Mangini, Head Coach of the New York Jets. [21]