Philip Dominic Seghi (March 9, 1909 – January 8, 1987) was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball.
He was born in Cedar Point, Illinois, to an Italian immigrant family,[1] attended Northwestern University, and was an infielder in minor league baseball during his playing career.
After World War II, Seghi was a manager in the lower minor leagues in 1946–1955, working in the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cleveland Indians organizations.
After joining the Redlegs (as the Reds were known from 1953 to 1958) as a scout, Seghi succeeded Bill McKechnie Jr. as Cincinnati's farm director after the 1958 season.
His most notable achievement occurred after the 1974 season, when he and owner Nick Mileti[2] appointed Frank Robinson (signed and developed by the Cincinnati farm system of the 1950s) as Major League Baseball's first African-American manager.