WHO IS STEVE PHILLIPS?
Steve is 58 years old, semi-retired, owns and lives on a cattle farm in Shelby County, AL. He is the primary stockholder of Southern Skin Divers Supply in Birmingham, AL which he owns with his two sons and Mark Tant. Steve learned to dive in 1965 while in the Air Force. He is an adventurer and explorer and goes diving all over the world, just for fun. On these trips he takes others with him after they pay their way. He also dives in places where most others dare not go — the dark, black polluted waters with bad currents, trot lines, tree snags, snakes and alligators in GA, AL, SC, VA & Alaska. Steve doesnt follow sports or play golf — he just dives every chance that he can. He is a pretty good Civil War historian and a dern good diver. He and his sons not only teach diving and sell equipment, but their hobby is diving for relics, gold and fossils and just taking pictures of all that beauty under water. For much of this interview Steve provided me with documents that I am going to b
By Thomas Hill Thursday, July 17th 1997, 2:02AM Steve Phillips, who yesterday became the Mets’ ninth GM, rocketed through the organization to become one of the youngest top executives in baseball at 34. He wasn’t even in the game seven years ago. Following a six-year minor-league career spent entirely with the Mets, Phillips was working for the Maritz Motivation Co. in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in 1990. Joe McIlvaine, then the Mets’ VP for baseball operations, called Phillips and offered him a position as a minor-league scouting assistant. McIlvaine had drafted Phillips in 1981 when McIlvaine was scouting director. “Joe used to tease me that he drafted me for the front office,” Phillips said. “I owe Joe a lot for where I am today.” Phillips served as Mets director of minor leagues from 1991 until he succeeded current Astros GM Gerry Hunsicker as Mets assistant GM in December 1995.
