University of the Pacific alumnus 波拉斯, named the most powerful sports agent in the world for the eighth time in nine years by Forbes Magazine, will be the 2023 commencement speaker for the McGeorge School of 法律. 

Boras pursued his undergraduate studies at Pacific while playing for the Pacific Tigers baseball team, then went on to earn his Doctor of 药店 from Pacific’s Thomas J. Long School of 药店 in 1977 and then his law degree from McGeorge in 1982.

Boras will speak to McGeorge graduates Saturday, May 27 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium for the school’s 99th commencement ceremony.

“Every day, 波拉斯 demonstrates the value of a McGeorge School of 法律 education,” said Dean Michael Hunter Schwartz. “I am thrilled to welcome him back to Sacramento to inspire McGeorge’s Class of 2023.”

Boras is currently ranked as the No. 1 sports agent in the world eight out of the nine times Forbes Magazine has conducted the ranking since 2013. 

Boras is the founder, owner and president of the Boras Corporation, a sports agency in Newport Beach, California. Boras Corporation was the sixth most valuable baseball only agency in the country in 2022, with 106 clients and more than $3.8 billion in active playing contracts.

Boras is the first agent to negotiate $50 million, 1亿美元, $200 million and $330 million dollar baseball contracts for players. In the baseball litigation arena, he has won more arbitration cases in Major League history than any other agent. Boras Corporation is the only agency in history to negotiate annual player contracts in excess of $1 billion, which has been achieved three times in the past four years.

His current roster includes–but is not limited to–the following players: Jose Altuve, 乔什·贝尔, 科迪贝林格, 亚历克玻姆, Xander博尔加特, 亚历克斯师, 克里斯·布莱恩特, Nick Castellanos, 马特·查普曼, Gerrit科尔, Michael Conforto, 卡洛斯·科雷亚, 乔伊加洛, 布莱斯哈珀, 斯里斯, 乔纳森印度, 肖恩Manaea, J.D. 马丁内斯, 布兰登·尼姆, 泰勒奥尼尔, 安东尼·瑞, 布伦丹·罗杰斯, 卡洛斯Rodon, 马克斯Scherzer, 科里Seager, 马库斯Semien, 斯奈尔布雷克, 胡安·索托, Stephen Strasburg, 胡里奥·乌里亚, Taijuan Walker and Masataka Yoshida.

Boras is a native of Sacramento who grew up on a dairy farm. He played four years of minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs organizations. During his undergraduate studies, Boras was a student-athlete, team captain and All-American on the baseball team. Knee injuries cut his baseball career short which led him to pursue his legal education.

After law school, Boras worked as an associate in the pharmaceutical defense department of a major Chicago law firm before founding the Boras Corporation.

In 1995, Boras was inducted into University of the Pacific’s 体育运动 Hall of Fame. In 2010, Boras was awarded Pacific’s Distinguished 校友 Award, an award recognizing individuals whose outstanding achievements and service to humanity have brought credit to the university. In 2021, he was inducted into the Sacramento Baseball Hall of Fame. Baseball America named him among Major League Baseball’s most influential non-players in the last 25 years.

Boras also was McGeorge’s commencement speaker in 2002. Previous commencement speakers include retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. 肯尼迪, actor Raymond Burr, members of Congress, 州长, lieutenant 州长, attorneys general, 市长, university presidents, law school deans and 51 judges.