Jimmie Lee Solomon, ex-MLB executive, dead at 64

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FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2006, file photo, Jimmie Lee Solomon, MLS executive vice president of baseball operations, announces the Civil Rights Game, during the baseball winter meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Solomon, a top executive for Major League Baseball under Commissioner Bud Selig who established youth academies and helped launch the annual Futures Game of top prospects, has died. He was 64. Solomon was among the highest-ranking Black officials in baseball when he left in 2012. His daughter, Tricia Solomon, said Friday, Oct. 9, 2020, that he was found dead at his house in Houston and the cause was not immediately known. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay, File)