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Theo Nathaniel Epstein (born December 29, 1973) is the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. On November 25, 2002, he became the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball when the Boston Red Sox hired him at the age of 28. In 2004, he was general manager of the club that won the first World Series championship by the Red Sox in 86 years and was in the position when the team won another championship in the 2007 season. Epstein resigned in October 2005, but was rehired as GM and Executive Vice President on January 24, 2006. On October 21, 2011 he resigned from his job in Boston to become President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. ==Early life and family== Epstein was born in New York City and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. He attended Brookline High School (a 1991 graduate), and played baseball for the Brookline High School Warriors, but dreamed of working for the Red Sox. Epstein has a fraternal twin brother, Paul. The brothers founded a charity, The Foundation to be Named Later, in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Foundation to be Named Later Founders )〕 Epstein's grandfather, Philip G. Epstein, and great-uncle, Julius J. Epstein - with Howard E. Koch - won Academy Awards for the screenplay of ''Casablanca'',〔 while his father, novelist Leslie Epstein, heads the Creative Writing Program at Boston University. Epstein's sister, Anya, was a screenwriter (''Homicide: Life on the Street'' and ''Tell Me You Love Me'').〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&br=default&id=54423 )〕 On January 12, 2007, Epstein, who is Jewish, married Marie Whitney, a Roman Catholic〔("This day in Jewish history/Red Sox manager who removed 'curse of the Bambino' moves on - Theo Epstein led the Sox to their first World Series win in 86 years, and later took on a bigger challenge: to do the same with the Chicago Cubs" ), haaretz.com, October 21, 2013.〕 and founder and creative director of Two Penny Blue.〔http://2pennyblue.com/pages/about-us〕 The couple have two boys, Jack and Andrew. An early report on the marriage from Boston Globe sportswriter Gordon Edes reported the site of the wedding was Nathan's Famous hot dog stand at Coney Island. Edes later published a correction, noting that he had fallen for a prank by Theo's father, Leslie. The site and actual date of the wedding was never released, but the Boston Herald later published a story claiming the wedding took place on Red Sox owner John Henry's yacht in Saint Thomas. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theo Epstein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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