I recently attended reunion weekend for the Huntsville Stars at Toyota Field in Madison, Alabama.   Great catching up with Larry Schmittou and Brad Fischer.   Schmittou brought the franchise to Rocket City in 1985, and Fischer led the club to a championship that first season. 🚀

A basketball coach had $10.81 in his bank account. In a job interview, he used that money to cook a meal for another coach. Now, he’s National Coach of the Year. 9 powerful lessons he told me about coaching, life, & success:

Great leader and manager

MLB expansion in Nashville sounds good to Rickey Henderson, Chris Sabo and Andruw Jones tennessean.com/story/sports/2… via Tennessean MLB

Coming in 2025 to the Bay Area WNBA BASKETBALL.

Join Dale Tafoya on Monday at 7pm on Zoom where he'll talk about ONE SEASON IN ROCKET CITY with the SABR Northern New England Chapter. bit.ly/45qkqa1

Looking forward to a great book discussion with @SABRMENH I was thrilled to hang out with former Huntsville Stars players and front office members for reunion weekend last month.

Thanks for reading, John!

"I'm your mechanic on duty, you just play.” Back in 2019, we spent a day on the backfields with new Los Angeles Angels skipper Ron Washington.

Special thanks to the Rocket City Trash Pandas for the specialty Huntsville Stars jersey!

“Greatness is not a measure of how great you are, but how great others came to be because of you.” -Cus D’Amato

Excited to see my first book get some recent attention! Thanks for the review Gerweck #BaseBall #BooksWorthReading

Happy 76th Birthday, Sandy Alderson. Metsmerized Online #Mets

"If you mislead a player, you lose them forever. If you tell them the truth, you lose them for about 24 hours." - Newest Hall of Famer Jim Leyland on being honest with players #MLBTonight | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾

5th book of the month was an awesome trip down memory lane reading “Billy Ball” by Dale Tafoya! Great writing and it brought back a lot of memories. Lyons Press Athletics

I think we just lost the greatest baseball player of all time. You’ll be missed, Willie.

Happy “Rick Camp Game” Day! “That certifies this game as the wackiest, wildest, most improbable game in history!” - John Sterling

Staying out of the heat this weekend with this banger from Dale Tafoya. It’s a fantastic look at a truly wild baseball personality.

Walt Jocketty, shrewd architect of Cardinals' modern revival into a perennial contender and GM for two NL pennant-winners, dies at 74. “We’ve never worked for anyone better than Walt Jocketty,” Tony La Russa once said of widely respected executive. stltoday.com/sports/profess…