John E. Boles, Jr. (born August 19, 1948 in Chicago) is an American professional baseball front-office executive, and a former manager in Major League Baseball and college baseball head coach.
 As of 2013 , he was the senior adviser to the general manager for player development for the Kansas City Royals.
NESN (New England Sports Network) is an American regional sports cable and satellite television network that is owned by a joint venture of Fenway Sports Group (which owns a controlling 80% interest, and is the owner of Boston Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club) and Delaware North (which owns the remaining 20% interest in the network, and owns the Boston Bruins and the TD Garden).
 Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, the network is primarily carried on cable providers throughout New England (except in Fairfield County, Connecticut, which is part of the greater New York City media market).
 NESN is also distributed nationally on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network and as NESN National via select cable providers.
 NESN is also on PlayStation Vue at the same areas it is broadcast on cable.
Peter Bavasi (born in Bronxville, New York, in 1942) is an American former front-office executive in Major League Baseball.
Glenn Wayne Ezell (born October 29, 1944, at Kentwood, Louisiana) is an American former front-office executive in Major League Baseball, as well as a former MLB coach and minor league catcher and manager.
John W. Claiborne III (born 1939) is a former front-office executive in American Major League Baseball who also was an early president of the New England Sports Network (NESN), a regional cable television network primarily (80 percent) owned by the Boston Red Sox that telecasts Red Sox baseball and Boston Bruins National Hockey League games.
Michael D. Port (born July 24, 1945) is an American former professional baseball executive.
 He was vice president, Umpiring for Major League Baseball from August 2005 through March 2011, when he left that position, and had been a front-office executive for three MLB clubs.
 Port was the general manager of the California Angels from September 1984 through 1991 and acting GM of the Boston Red Sox from February through November of 2002.
James Leroy "Lee" Thomas (born February 5, 1936) is a former player and current front-office executive in American Major League Baseball.
 As general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1988 to 1997, Thomas built the Phillies from a below .500 club into the 1993 champions of the National League.
Timothy Paul Bogar (born October 28, 1966) is an American Major League Baseball coach and a former infielder, manager and front-office executive.
 He is the bench coach for the Seattle Mariners.
Leland Stanford MacPhail, Jr. (October 25, 1917 – November 8, 2012) was an American front-office executive in Major League Baseball.
 MacPhail was a baseball executive for 45 years, serving as the director of player personnel for the New York Yankees, the president and general manager of the Baltimore Orioles, chief aide to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert, executive vice president and general manager of the Yankees, and president of the American League.
Fred Early McAlister (March 1, 1928 – November 23, 2008) was an American minor league baseball player and Major League Baseball scout and front-office executive who spent 63 years in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
 He served as the team's Director of Scouting from 1980 until 1993.
 Fred had 3 daughters with Charlotte; Kathy Stewart, Kelly Verret, and Kara Ragusa.

Question:  John W. Claiborne III (born 1939) is a former front-office executive in American Major League Baseball who also was an early president of the New England Sports Network with headquarters in what state?
Answer: Massachusetts