Sun, September 30, 2007
About Us
by Mike Lynch
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Lynch has been a baseball fan since he was old enough to hold a bat and ball. He was born in the heart of Red Sox nation in the year of Yastrzemski and has been a die hard Red Sox fan ever since. He lives in Portland, Oregon and has been writing for web sites since 1999, has been published by The Oregonian newspaper, and has been a member of SABR since 2004. His first book, Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson and the Feud That Nearly Destroyed the American League, was published by McFarland Publishing in 2008 and was named a finalist for the 2009 Larry Ritter Award in addition to being nominated for the Seymour Medal. His second book, It Ain’t So: A Might-Have-Been History of the White Sox in 1919 and Beyond, will be released by McFarland in 2010.
Kevin Johnson:
Another SABR member, Johnson lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma with his wife and two daughters, but grew up in St. Louis as an avid Cardinal fan. He works for a travel technology company. He maintains a database on major league ballparks, has been a contributor to Total Baseball and The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia, is helping coordinate the SABR Minor League Committee Minor League Encyclopedia project, and his article, “St. Louis’ Forgotten Champions of 1928″ was published in SABR’s Mound City Memories in 2007.
Ivar Anderson:
Ivar Anderson is a life long resident of Michigan and has lived most of his youth and adult life in a northwest suburb of Detroit. As such, he follows the Detroit Tigers with an avid fascination. He has played fantasy baseball since 2005, getting hooked on Yahoo by winning 3 of the 4 leagues he entered his first year, although he spent countless rainy days playing APBA and Strat-O-Matic baseball during his formative years. He never let his mother throw away any of his baseball cards and has complete sets of Topps cards from 1970-73 stored away safely in his closet. He is a contributor to FantasyGameday.net and is proud to publish his cheatsheet and projection spreadsheet there for public consumption each year, as well as creating customized cheatsheets for readers who ask him politely to do so. He lives with his wife, two sons and his occasionally lame miniature schnauzer Mitch in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Having wasted his undergrad days at U of M obtaining a BA in English, he now works as an attorney, and despite all the jokes, enjoys his profession greatly.
Brian L. Cartwright:
Brian is a lifelong Pirates and Steelers fan who has worked as a Systems Analyst/Programmer and Senior Photogrammetrist for Aerometric in Sterling, Va. since 1988. He lives with his wife Donna, two children, two grandchildren, various cats and a dog in Johnstown, Pa.
Elias Coblentz:
Elias Coblentz grew up in Wellman, Iowa right in the heart of Cubs nation. Fortunately he realized that suffering and futility were not as much fun as winning, and became a die-hard St. Louis Cardinals fan. He wore a St. Louis Cardinals shirt every day from August 22, 1999 until August 13, 2006 when his wife made him stop. While Elias loves the Cardinals, he loves the game itself even more. He has a baseball film archive with over 700 games spanning a 55-year period, and does not go a single day all year without watching at least one baseball game. When away from baseball Elias enjoys being with his family, Church activities, and performing stand-up comedy. He and his wife Lindsey live in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dan Crivello:
Dan Crivello is a typical rabid fan of the most successful team in the history of the National League. His grandfather, Joe, was a diehard football fan and Dan grew up learning and knowing much more about the gridiron than about the diamond. It was quite a shock when he learned that the ‘other’ Cardinal team in town, the one that played baseball, had a history of real success quite different than the minuscule amount enjoyed by the “Big Red” football Cardinals.
It wasn’t long after his grandfather passed in 1981 that Dan got a job working for a local pharmacist who happened to love baseball. From that strike-shortened season, a love for the game and its history grew and was cast in stone the next season when Whitey and the gang brought home the World Series. Like many Cards fans, he was traumatized by the events of the 1985 World Series. That team has remained his favorite, and knowing it his passion, for the past 23 years of his baseball life. Only the triumph of the 2006 team has brought any semblance of relief.
Now at age 40, Dan has his own son to which to teach the game. He is happily married and loves to spend all the time he can with his wife and 3 year old Joey. He and his wife, Lynn, make their home in Alton, Illinois and both work in Florissant, MO, just north of St Louis. They are active in their Church and, besides watching baseball, enjoy movies and Christian contemporary music.
Josh Deitch:
When, as a young child, Josh Deitch donned a plastic “Cookie Monster” mask and apron, knelt down in a catcher’s stance, and started giving signs to an imaginary pitcher, needless to say, his parents were concerned. Luckily for them, Josh somehow grew into a mildly well-adjusted young man, despite his obsession with the game of baseball and the New York Yankees. Josh attended
You can follow Josh on Facebook and Twitter.
Bill Gilbert:
Bill grew up in Denver and graduated from the University of Colorado. After 2 years as a Naval Officer and a 33-year career with ExxonMobil, he has spent a good part of his retirement years indulging his lifelong interest in baseball. He was active in Little League Baseball as a coach and administrator for 14 years and played in Senior Softball tournaments for many years.
A SABR member since 1984, Bill has attended 15 SABR Conventions and has given presentations at 13 of them. He has also written articles for The National Pastime, The Baseball Research Journal and other publications and web sites. He was the leader of SABR’s Larry Dierker Chapter in Houston for over 10 years and, after relocating to Austin, founded the Rogers Hornsby Chapter in Central Texas. For the past 16 years, he has worked for Tal Smith Enterprises on salary arbitration and has attended many arbitration hearings.
He lives in Lakeway, Texas, a suburb of Austin with his wife of 47 years. They have 4 children and 9 grandchildren.
Paul Gotham:
Paul Gotham is a beat reporter for the Webster Yankees of the New York Collegiate Baseball League. You can check out more of Paul’s work as Casey on www.pickinsplinters.com
Sean Grybos:
Sean Grybos is a freelance writer who uses his background in anthropology to guide his work. He takes great joy in seeking out and participating in cultural experiences. One such example came about when he joined a French-Canadian fantasy league with two fellow
He believes that the thirst for knowledge is unending and looks forward to writing about culturally significant aspects of the game that sometimes are overlooked. Primarily, he will focus on the Negro Leagues and central
He currently resides one hour south of Howard J. Lamade Stadium with his wife Kim, and their three dogs,
Dr. Michael Hoban:
Michael Hoban, Ph.D. retired in 2005 after a 48-year career in education. The last 35 years were spent teaching at the university level (after obtaining his doctorate in mathematics from
- Baseball’s Complete Players (McFarland: 2000) was an attempt to put the numbers together (both offensive and defensive) to see who were baseball’s best all-around players at each position.
- Fielder’s Choice: Baseball’s Best Shortstops (Booklocker: 2003) was an attempt to rank the shortstops by defensive skills and then by overall excellence.
Bryan Holt:
Bryan Holt is a journalism major in his junior year at the University of Florida. Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Bryan became hooked on baseball from attending Cardinals spring training games at Al Lang Field and watching the 1991 World Series as a young child. Being entranced by The Game before ever falling in love with a team, he always cherished the humble majesty of the Grapefruit League. When the expansion Devil Rays moved in across the Bay in 1998, he naturally became a fan despite the team’s dreary warehouse of a stadium and knack for never playing a meaningful game past May. However, it all paid off in 2008 during the Rays’ historic turn-around season when he was able to experience the best baseball fanhood-related moments of his life.
Bryan is also a Tampa Bay Buccaneers season ticket holder and a loyal fan of the USF Bulls and Florida Gators. His goal is to become a sports writer upon graduating from college.
Kurt Hunzeker:
One look at his office’s red walls, Busch Stadium collectibles and an estimated $5,000 spent on caps, jerseys, memorabilia and other branded goodies, and you will know that Kurt lives, breathes and revolves too much of his life around St. Louis Cardinals baseball. His ability at the age of 2 to name and match every Cardinal player and coach by his number solidified his love of the game and future career in the industry. His 5’9” frame and allergy to infield dirt guaranteed that this career would have to be on the business side of the game.
Specializing on the creative aspects of sports business, Kurt has authored a book on the sports advertising process (creatively dubbed “Sports Advertising Process”), secured licensing agreements with MLB Properties and MLB Players Association for an upstart collectible company (KiDS ScoreCard), designed the actual product sold in retail shops like Toys R Us and MLB.com, consulted sports properties and sponsors with the development of strategic sponsorship packages, and is now connecting brands with more than 3.7 million youth sports participants as a business development director with The Active Network.
Kurt lives as a pilgrim in an unholy land (Cardinal fan in Chicago) with his wife, Catrina, and their daughter, Lily…who we already know can throw a changeup with both hands. A future outfielder is due in March.
Brian Joseph:
Brian grew up on Phillies baseball while living in the Philadelphia suburbs. A graduate of Rowan University of New Jersey, Brian spent the last 14 years in retail including the last four years as a multi-unit manager. Freelance writing, sports and poker have taken up the rest of his free time. Brian has recently become a member of SABR and is working on a comprehensive analysis of the Major League Baseball amateur draft. He’s been in love with the history of the game ever since being introduced to Strat-O-Matic baseball by his brother as a kid which later advanced to Micro League Baseball on the Commodore 64.
Ted Leavengood:
Ted is a Nationals fan and a baseball writer who works for Uncle Sam to pay the bills. He and his wife live in
Wayne Lin:
Wayne Lin is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and has copyedited for the Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals. He resides in the Oklahoma City area with his wife. He is currently writing a book entitled Paradigm about two baseball players going in opposite directions both in life and in the game.
Brendan Macgranachan:
Brendan Macgranachan was born and currently resides in Brandon, Manitoba and is a diehard and lifelong Toronto Blue Jay fan. He has covered hockey for both HockeyFuture and CanucksCorner as a beat writer for the Vancouver Canucks. He is an avid baseball fan with interests that spread from current events, fantasy baseball and the history of the game, and follows both the Major Leagues and the college game.
Doyle (Duke) Matthews:
Duke was raised in the Southern California area and grew up a Dodger Blue fan while he played Little League, Pony League, Slow Pitch, and Over-the-line. As a young kid he watched Sandy Koufax mow down opponents on summer evenings at Chavez Ravine during the early sixties. He continued to follow the Dodgers while on engineering assignments abroad. In 1988, he returned on home leave and got to watch Kurt Gibson’s “miracle shot” against the “A’s.”
Duke is currently hanging out in Bangkok after publishing his suspense novel about the US Embassy here. He likes to think the Dodgers are as far away as his computer screen and believes that every ballplayer had a dream and there’s a story behind it.
Dustin Mattison:
Dustin Mattison is a life long Cardinal fan that grew up during the decade of Whitey Herzog’s rabbits running wild on the Astroturf fields of Busch Stadium. It is no wonder the name of his blog is whiteyball. Mattison’s work can also be found at Scout.com’s the Birdhouse along with Future Redbirds and many others. He was the Cardinals owner in the first Seamheads Historical Baseball League. Dustin, along with his wife Christina, have two children, Anna and Zachary, and make their home in Cape Girardeau, MO.
Chris McClinch:
Chris McClinch had the good luck or epic misfortune to be nine years old in the summer of 1986. Growing up in Northern Virginia without a true home team to root for, he latched onto young phenom Roger Clemens and the Boston Red Sox. When Clemens struck out 20 Mariners, he was hooked for life. When the ball went through Buckner’s legs in Game 6, he was scarred for life. Red Sox baseball and the game as a whole have been at the center of his life ever since.
Chris’s baseball interests are widespread, from sabermetrics to the history of the game to its place in American culture, and you can expect to see articles on these subjects and more.
When not writing about or watching baseball, Chris is a full-time defense contractor, a part-time bodybuilder and personal trainer, and an avid amateur photographer.
Dan McCloskey:
Dan grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, the son of a father who knew enough about Chet Laabs to thoroughly impress their neighbors. Needless to say, he’s been an avid baseball fan for as long as he can remember. He was an advocate of the Moneyball philosophy long before it became in vogue, emphasizing players with high walk and home run rates when strategizing for his various Strat-O-Matic baseball teams in the 80s.
He considers baseball to be the ultimate form of healthy escapism, although some would still call it an obsession. To that point, he has attended 21 of the last 22 Hall of Fame induction ceremonies. His interest in baseball extends beyond that of player and fan as well. He is a 1994 graduate of the Brinkman/Froemming Umpire School, although his umpiring dream never went further than Division III college baseball and a brief stint with an unsuccessful independent minor league.
He currently resides in Somerville, MA, a Yankee fan in enemy territory, and is the Systems Librarian at a small college in Boston. He also writes his own blog, the music and baseball oriented Left Field, under the pseudonym of Charles Simone.
Matt Mitchell:
A statistician by trade and an aspiring sabermetrician by extension into his great passion for baseball, Matt Mitchell grew up as a child of the game of summer with a dream of being like Ryne Sandberg or Frank Thomas. Unfortunately, the
A current resident in the western edge of the football-loving state of
Justin Murphy:
Justin Murphy is pursuing an M.A. in journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Syracuse University. He got his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and is a former professor of linguistics at Vilnius University in Lithuania. A SABR member since 2007, he received a Yoseloff grant for his research on 19th century pitcher John Flynn, and contributed to the book Go-Go to Glory, about the 1959 Chicago White Sox. Murphy also writes about the Minnesota Twins at www.baseballdigest.com.
Dennis Pajot:
Dennis was born and raised in Milwaukee, and then raised his family in the same city. Add to this he worked for and retired from a position with the City of Milwaukee–and still lives there–one could certainly call him a lifelong Milwaukeean. A baseball fan from age 8 or so, his first memories of the game were the World Champion Milwaukee Braves. While waiting to celebrate the second baseball World Championship in Milwaukee, Dennis took to the history of the game in the Cream City in the 19th Century. This research led to a manuscript which will be published by McFarland in the summer of 2009. Currently his main research is on the baseball parks that the Milwaukee clubs called home from 1859 to 1904.
Scott Powers:
Scott is an undergraduate statistics major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In high school he won the SABR Jack Kavanaugh Memorial Youth Baseball Research Award three consecutive years, during which time he played varsity baseball and served as team captain. Now he is an editor of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s school newspaper, and the starting setter for Carolina Men’s Club Volleyball.
Lance Richardson:
Lance Richardson was born in San Diego, California, a scant 87 days before Dick Selma pitched the Padres to victory in their first National League game. Lance doesn’t remember that particular win, but he does remember thousands of ensuing losses. As such, he is uniquely qualified to complain about his lot in life.
Self-absorbed as the day is long, Lance will happily expound upon music, baseball, literature, and politics to anyone willing to listen. When not enjoying the sound of his own voice, he plays drums in a garage- rock band that is destined for stardom.
Lance still lives in San Diego County, where he works tirelessly at Richardson Steel, Inc., roots rabidly for the Padres and Chargers, and drinks heavily to dull the pain of it all. Two of his three children are not in jail, so he’s got that going for him.
Shelly Riley:
Shelly grew up in Northern Michigan listening to the sounds of Ernie Harwell as he updated Tigers radio fans about the 6-4-3 double play that her boys Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker just turned. Born a Tigers fan, she quickly dropped baseball in her semi-rebellious youth to follow other, more socially acceptable mischief. After graduating from Michigan State University in 2003 with a BA in English, She moved down to the Greater Detroit area and quickly rediscovered her childhood love of baseball.
Shelly spends her days as a regional buyer (aka: desk jockey) for a nationwide landscaping supply company, but her nights are dedicated to some form of baseball. If she is not spending her paycheck at the CoPa in downtown Detroit, she is at home watching the game with very vocal cat, Pumpkin, who is accepting of her mom’s obsession and often opts to join her in baseball viewing. Shelly also has a strange obsession with ballpark hotdogs and can easily be bought with a bag of peanuts and a cold beer.
Most recently, she volunteered her time in the effort to help save Tiger Stadium at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull by updating out of town fans with photos and articles of the demolition at http://www.myspace.com/friendssavingtigerstadium
Peter Schiller:
Peter’s been fascinated with sports, especially baseball, ever since he can remember. His understanding of baseball has been influenced by two books: The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams and John Underwood and Moneyball by Michael Lewis, and the agony of being a Boston Red Sox fan up until 2003. After that, the agony has faded away and what remains is a dedication to and respect for the sport of baseball that is rivaled only by his passion for his family. He can’t get enough of the game: the stats, the analysis, the personalities and the human elements that separate it from every other sport. His hope is to share his unique perspective with other fans of the game.
By day, he works in the corporate world. At all other times he is a devoted husband to his wife and their 6 children ages 2 to 15 (with 8 in his family, he’s only 1 shy of being able to field a team himself!) His writing comes about as a result of many people encouraging him to write online and publish his baseball knowledge, which he does regularly at his site Baseball Reflections.com. Where will it lead? Keep coming back and we’ll find out. . .
Ron Selter:
Ronald M. Selter has a just-published book by McFarland & Co. Inc. entitled Ballparks of the Deadball Era. This book examines the relationship between batting and ballparks in the 1901-1919 time period.
The author is one of the leading SABR ballpark experts. He was the text editor for the ballpark encyclopedia-Green Cathedrals (2006 Edition) published by SABR. In addition he was a contributor to the book Forbes Field (2007 by McFarland). His area of expertise is 20th Century major-league ballparks.
His most recent ballpark article was Early Wrigley Field that appeared in the 2007 edition (Number 36) of the SABR Baseball Research Journal.
The author is a retired economist formerly with the Air Force Space Program. A SABR member since 1989 and a member of the Ballparks, Minor League, Statistical, and Deadball Committees. He has made presentations at both SABR regional meetings and at the national conventions. These presentations have been focused on the have been about ballparks, and the relationship between ballparks and batting.
Matt Sisson:
Mathew Sisson, a SABR member from Dartmouth, Massachusetts, is a life long Red Sox Fan. He currently lives in Watertown, Massachusetts and works as an internal consultant for one of Massachusetts major health insurance providers. Matt is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire where he majored in Health Management and Policy and holds an MBA from Clark University. In addition to his work at Baseball Digest Daily, Matt contributes to the site Seamheads.com and has a strong interest in current major league players, baseball statistics, fantasy baseball, and baseball history. Matt is currently working on chapters for books being published in 2009 on the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Red Sox and has recently been published in Maple Street Press’s Yankees 2009 Annual.
Tom Stone:
Tom Stone grew up near Rochester, NY, and still lives in that area with his wife Susan and their two cats Pepsi and Sprite. He has worked for Element K since 1999 as an Instructional Designer, ID Manager, and now Product Design Architect. He is a frequent speaker at eLearning industry conferences, and is also the company’s primary blogger. Tom has a BA degree in Philosophy from the University of Rochester, and in 1997 he combined this background with his growing web development skills by creating EpistemeLinks.com – a large and popular philosophy resource directory site (it receives about 7,000 visitors per day). Tom also published (as editor) a unique and interesting book: Frontier Experience, or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, by J.E.L. Seneker (available from Lulu.com and from Amazon.com).
As for baseball, as a child Tom was a fan of the Pirates, though today he considers himself to be more a fan of the game as a whole than any particular team. He plays in multiple roto/fantasy leagues each year (and has been playing roto since the late 1980s when it was done by mail and phone!). He has been a SABR member for many years, and his baseball writings interests are mostly in history and statistics, especially topics such as all-time teams and rankings, hall-of-fame arguments, and related topics. Prior to joining Seamheads he blogged on baseball – amongst many other topics – at his personal blog, Philosopher Stone. He is also working on a baseball book on baseball’s all-time teams, and plans to post his draft chapters to Seamheads for feedback and comments.
Michael Taylor:
Michael’s love for the game, as a native of
Michael’s love for the sport has grown into an obsession, albeit a good obsession, for as much information as he can get about the game. He is most interested in the Cleveland Indians, Fantasy Baseball and the business aspects of the sport. He also has been a member of SABR since 2005 and scored minor league games for Baseball Info Solutions since 2006.
Michael resides in
Anita Y. Tsuchiya:
Anita Y. Tsuchiya is el presidente y peón of Sabaku, Inc., a marketing services company that provides writing, editing, research, analysis and consulting for a diverse assortment of clientèle. The loves of her life are split into two seasons: fall/winter is for completing her degree in Japanese language, while spring/summer is spent joyfully immersed in the sights, sounds and smells of minor league baseball. An aging jock who swears by the modern miracle of NSAIDs, she prefers sports served in the raw over the canned TiVo’d product. She started watching the Tacoma Tigers in 1994 because frankly, few experiences are as dismal as baseball played inside a concrete-domed football stadium. After a cross-desert move and one-year hiatus from summer sports, she returned to her true love in 1998. She’s been a season ticketholder with the Salt Lake Triple-A franchise (Twins, Angels) ever since.
From her bush-league vantage point, Anita has watched an endless parade of future big leaguers, up-close and personal. She remembers a corner infielder named Tom Quinlan, who had an annoying habit of hitting in the clutch against the Rainiers; she finds it curiously amusing to be cheering for his little brother, Robb, years later as a Stinger. She still has her cherished Rhubarb drink cup, the giveaway from an evening in which a skinny kid named Derek Lowe pitched a shut-out for the Rainiers. Later that season Lowe was traded to Boston, packaged with a light-hitting catcher named Vari,. . .something or other. She smiles with memories of A.J. Pierzynski, a 22-years-young catcher overflowing with talent and, uh, “charm.” She still wonders what Big Papi did to make Tom Kelly so mad he kept the kid locked away in the desert bushes for nearly two seasons, and notes he was one of the nicest athletes she’d ever met. She recalls four seasons of dazzling defensive play and no-holds-barred passion for the game from Alfredo Amazin-ga, at shortstop. She considers 2008 the Summer of Cinderellas—Shane Loux and Nick Adenhart. And this spring, she wept for a week straight starting on April 9th. Despite her steadfast devotion to the Farm System of organized baseball, she does admit to a moment of spiritual weakness—a one-night stand on October 2, 1995—to watch Randy Johnson pitch six innings of perfection in a three-hit, nine-inning masterpiece otherwise known as the ALDS one-game tiebreaker between the Mariners and Angels. The hearing in her right ear never quite recovered.
Her most recent claim to fame is as special consultant for the newly released book How to Make Pro Baseball Scouts Notice You by Al Goldis and John Wolff. Other works include interviews/articles for eFieldhouse, a social networking site for professional athletes, and a Jamesian-inspired, albeit unorthodox, analysis of “Moneyball” at Ben’s Biz Blog. You can read more of her seriously off-speed stuff at her self-published blog, “The Sporkball Journals.” She can be contacted via email: beesgal@chiburibird.net.
Alfonso Tusa:
Alfonso is a writer and chemical technician from Cumaná, Venezuela who was born in Roger Maris’ record-setting year of 1961. His work has been featured in Venezuela’s daily newspaper, El Nacional—he won an award in 2004 for a letter he sent to the paper called “Un mandado en Bebedero” (”An errand in Bebedero”)—and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he’s collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including “El Año del Pitcher” (”The Year of the Pitcher”) for the daily paper Tal Cual and “Jim Abbott sigue inspirando a los discapacitados” (”One handed wonder Abbott still an inspiration”) for El Nacional.
He’s also written three books. In 2004 his novel, Esperanzas entre Leones y Navegantes (Expectations between Lions and Navigators), received a special mention in the First Contest on Baseball and Literature supported by the Venezuelan Winter Baseball League. In 2006 his book, Una Temporada Mágica (A Magical Season), won the Second Contest on Baseball and Literature supported by the Venezuelan Winter Baseball League. And in 2007 he published his third book, El Látigo del Béisbol. Una Biografía de Isaías Chávez (The Baseball’s Whip. An Isaías Chávez biography).
He’s written biographies for SABR’s BioProject (Isaías Látigo Chávez and Cito Gaston) and currently provides bilingual articles (Spanish-English) for Seamheads.com.
Kevin Wheeler:
Kevin Wheeler is a sports talk show host, baseball instructor and baseball writer based in St. Louis. His “real job” is at the legendary KMOX where he hosts the Ford Sports Open Line (6-8 PM CT Monday thru Friday - available at www.kmox.com). SOL is the longest running sports talk show in America and was hosted in years past by the likes of Jack Buck and Bob Costas.
Kevin also works as a baseball instructor for All-Star Performance in Kirkwood, MO (www.all-starperformance.net) alongside former Major Leaguers Matt Whiteside, Scott Cooper and Scott Terry. He works primarily with hitters and catchers and also assists Cooper and Whiteside with their “Gamers” travel program (www.stlgamers.net) for players between the ages of 12-18. He played college ball for the Miami Hurricanes in the early 90’s.
Kevin was the Sporting News’ minor league baseball analyst as well as a fantasy baseball contributor for the Sporting News Fantasy Source from 2001-2005. He also wrote Major League and minor league player reports for John Benson’s Diamond Library publications from 1999-2007.
Joe Williams:
Joe’s interest in baseball began in the early 1970s in his hometown of
Joe has been a SABR member since 1990 and is very active in the Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood SABR Chapter. He was officially named the chapter’s treasurer in 2006 and is currently working with other SABR members to write a BioProject book on significant
