Speaker Schedule
The East Texas Speakers Forum will present An Evening with Ray Davis and Chris Young at the LeTourneau University Belcher Center in Longview.
An Evening with Ray Davis and Chris Young
Longview
An Evening with Ray Davis and Chris Young of the Texas Rangers, which had been set for Feb. 1, has been postponed.
Information regarding a rescheduled event will be forthcoming.
All paid sponsors and ticketholders will be receiving refunds through the Belcher Center box office beginning Jan. 11. If ETSF or the Belcher Center is in receipt of your uncashed check sent in the past few days, it will be destroyed.
Thank you for your continuing support of the East Texas Speakers Forum and please watch your email inbox and social media updates for news of the event being rescheduled for later this year.
About the Speakers:
Ray Davis
Texas Rangers
Managing Partner and Majority Owner
Ray Davis is managing partner and majority owner of the Rangers and is chairman of the team’s board of directors. Since he became a principal owner in August 2010, the Rangers have won four A.L. West Division titles, three A.L. pennants, the first World Series championship in franchise history (2023), and have advanced to postseason play six times. He has presided over a period of unprecedented growth in the franchise from a business and community perspective. Globe Life Field, a $1.25 billion facility with a retractable roof that opened in March 2020 in Arlington, will host the 2024 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Davis is a native of East Texas and a graduate of LeTourneau University in Longview.
Chris Young
Texas Rangers
Executive Vice President and General Manager
Chris Young joined the Texas Rangers as executive vice president and general manager in December 2020. The 43-year-old Young assumed leadership of the Rangers’ entire baseball operations group in August 2022. A veteran of 13 Major League seasons as a right-handed pitcher with five clubs, Young is the ninth general manager in Rangers history and joins Eddie Robinson (1976-82) and Tom Grieve (1984-94) as former MLB players to hold the position. He joins Seattle’s Jerry Dipoto, Philadelphia’s Sam Fuld, Boston’s Craig Breslow, and Chris Getz of the Chicago White Sox as the only former Major Leaguers to currently oversee baseball operations for an MLB organization. During an active off-season in 2022, Young oversaw the hiring of three-time World Series champion Bruce Bochy to manage the club and fortified the Rangers’ starting rotation with the signings of free agents Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, and Andrew Heaney, the re-signing of Martin Perez and the acquisition of Jake Odorizzi via trade. Several of those acquisitions played key roles in the club’s run to its first-ever World Series championship in 2023.