Robert (Bob) Tufts joined the Yeshiva University baseball program as an assistant coach in January of 2018.
In addition to working with the baseball program, Tufts is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, where he teaches courses in the Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department. He earned the prestigious honor of being the recipient of the Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business Lilian F. and William L. Silber Professor of the Year Award, during the 2017-18 academic year.
Tufts pitched in the major leagues during portions of the 1981-1983 seasons for the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. He was also successful in the minor leagues, earning the AAA Rolaids Relief Award in 1982, the same year he was a Pacific Coast League All-Star. The lefty earned the honor of being a Texas League All-Star in 1981, and won the Silver Glove Award in 1979.
The former Major Leaguer was the author of a chapter for an ESPN book “Fathers and Daughters and Sports”.
Tufts is a cancer survivor. He advocates on behalf of patients at medical conventions, seminars, via social media, and in columns in various traditional media outlets. The southpaw was a co-author of an academic study titled “Cost vs. Value and the Price of Innovation in Cancer Care: Oral Anticancer Drugs in Multiple Myeloma, as a Case Study,” which was published by the Goldwater Institute in May of 2018.
A native of New York, N.Y., Tufts earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Princeton University in 1977. He earned his Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Columbia University School of Business in 1986.
