Who Are You?

Darrell - this was a great idea. Thanks.

I'm 43 years old, married to a saint - she actually ENCOURAGED me to put a batting cage in our back yard! I have two daughters - Courtney is 9 and Riane (pronounced Ryan...it's an Irish spelling) Marie was born on Monday 1/18.

Courtney is an avid athlete who loves baseball and basketball. It's a little early to tell about Riane, but I did have my baseball glove with me in the delivery room just in case!

I used to work for one of those broadcasting conglomerates (they've sold and merged so many times in the past couple of years that it's hard to know what they're calling themselves these days).

I do a lot of coaching...baseball, softball and basketball. I coach baseball at the 7th-8th grade level at a nearby Catholic secondary school as well as on the Little League level. I also coach a girls' softball team in our town's Little League program that my daughter plays in. And I coach a 4th grade boys' basketball team at our local Catholic elementary school.

In addition, I also do some work with a company called Professional Baseball Instruction, Inc. out of northern New Jersey. We have our own website at www.baseballclinics.com but it's not up and running yet.

I have had (and continue to have) a life-long love affair with baseball thanks to my parents. My dad was good enough to be scouted by the Red Sox out of high school; my mom was from Brooklyn and lived and died with the Dodgers each year. I tell her all the time that the reason the Dodgers finally won in 1955 was because I was born that summer. I continue to play in a men's adult league...mostly CF because even at 43 I can still run pretty well.