Time names Epstein among world's 100 most influential people
Dennis Wierzbicki / Reuters
Theo Epstein has some power.
Less than a month after being named the world's greatest leader by Fortune Magazine, the Cubs' president of baseball operations was named among the top 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.
The list of inffluential names includes U.S. President Donald Trump, Cleveland Cavaliers superstar LeBron James, Pope Francis, and RuPaul.
The 43-year-old Epstein had his profile in Time written by die-hard Cubs fan John Cusack, who called Chicago's first World Series win in 108 years the "greatest sporting moment of the century."
Epstein, who joined the Cubs in 2012, has been the architect behind ending two of baseball's greatest World Series droughts in Boston (2004) and Chicago (2016).