Episodes
June 8, 2024
David Klein - Speedball & Legends Camps
David Klein is a nationally recognized, award-winning transformational coach and experience designer in the baseball and softball world. David’s transformative influence extends beyond the field. He’s profoundly impacted tho…
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June 2, 2024
Ken Carpenter - Athlete 1 Podcast
Ken Carpenter is the host of the Athlete 1 Podcast. On his show, Ken examines success, failures, and life lessons in sports. He provides valuable insight and an understanding of playing and coaching team sports. Ken is in th…
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May 25, 2024
Rich Taylor - Don't Throw Strikes
Rich Taylor is the former pitching coach at Pepperdine University and the owner of The Pitching Kingdom. He is also the author of “Don’t Throw Strikes.” Rich is passionate about nurturing young pitchers and helping them unlo…
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May 18, 2024
Don Hooton Jr. - Taylor Hooton Foundation
Don Hooton Jr is the President of The Taylor Hooton Foundation. The Taylor Hooton Foundation was founded in 2004, in memory of Don’s younger brother Taylor Hooton, a 17-year-old baseball player from Plano, Texas. Taylor took…
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May 5, 2024
Scott Steltz - Chatham High School
Scott Steltz is not just your ordinary, run-of-the-mill baseball coach. He is the Head Coach of the Chatham High School Panthers. The Panthers have won back-to-back NYS High School Baseball Championships and Coach Steltz is …
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April 21, 2024
Bert Gonzalez - Indyball Jobs
Bert Gonzalez is the manager of the New Jersey Jackals of the Frontier League in Independent Baseball and also the founder of Indyball Jobs. Independent Baseball provides another avenue for high level baseball players to com…
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April 14, 2024
Justin Sherman - Justintime Baseball
Justin Sherman is the founder of Justintime Baseball, an independent baseball training, softball training, and coaching business located in Westchester, NY. They partner with little leagues, recreation programs, private grou…
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March 31, 2024
Catching Up With Anthony Pla
We wrap up our recordings from the 2024 ABCA Convention by catching up with Anthony Pla. These conversations have become an annual occurrence and are just one of the many reasons that I look forward to the beginning of Janua…
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March 29, 2024
RJ Farrell & Jeremy "Sheets" Sheetinger - Meritorious Men
One of our last interviews from the 2024 ABCA convention was supposed to be with USA Baseball National Team Head Coach RJ Farrell but we wound up with an added bonus to the show by inviting Georgia Gwinnett College Head Coac…
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March 24, 2024
Paul Gallo & Pudge Gjormand - Youth Baseball Summit
There are so many great baseball minds just roaming around at the ABCA convention. Paul Gallo and Mark “Pudge” Gjormand are 2 of them that I have had the pleasure of spending some time with both in Kansas City during the You…
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Feb. 17, 2024
Matt Rienzi - Roger Williams University
Matt Rienzi began his tenure as the Assistant Baseball Coach at Roger Williams University during the 2023 season and is the new Head Coach of the Ocean State Waves of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Matt sat down…
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Feb. 10, 2024
Catching Up With Jake Lindmeier - Dallas College Brookhaven
Another one of our good friends, Jake Lindmeier, sat down with us to catch up with what was going on at the convention and just baseball in general! Jake is from Dallas College Brookhaven and always has some good advice for …
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Feb. 1, 2024
Catching Up With Taylor Valentine - Centre College
New relationships are always being built at the the ABCA Convention but another great attribute of the convention is the ability to foster existing friendships. In this episode we spend some time catching up with our good fr…
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Jan. 28, 2024
Jim Chester - Gardner Webb University
As we continue along with our recordings from the ABCA convention we move to our next guest, Jim Chester of Gardner Webb University. Jim is going into his fifth year as the head coach of the Runnin’ Bulldogs. Coach Chester i…
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Jan. 24, 2024
Carl Nichols - The Prospect Nation
Carl Nichols is a former MLB catcher that played parts of six seasons for the Baltimore Orioles and Houston Astros but what was appealing to me was his ability to teach and develop baseball players. Carl joined me on Podcast…
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Jan. 21, 2024
Chris Gissell - Baseball Dudes
The mission of Baseball Dudes owner, Chris Gissell, is to guide and mentor players, their families, coaches, and his social media followers to a successful life on & off the field. Develop confidence. Teach the game. Instill…
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Jan. 15, 2024
Deven Morgan– Director of Youth Baseball / Driveline Academy
Deven Morgan is the Director of Youth Baseball at Driveline Academy and author of the new book, Skills That Scale. He has one of the best baseball minds in the country. You will be hard pressed to find someone that is more p…
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Dec. 31, 2023
Jeff Sopha & Shon Plack – KC Royals Baseball Development
I had the honor of participating in the ABCA Youth Baseball Summit hosted by the Kansas City Royals at Kaufman Stadium this past November. While I was there, I had the pleasure of meeting Shon Plack and Jeff Sopha. There are…
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Dec. 24, 2023
Nick Serio - VeloU
Nick Serio is a coach that has a doctorate in Sport and Performance Psychology. He established Athletes Warehouse in 2014 and extended his commitment to athlete empowerment with the founding of Velo University in 2020. Nick …
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Nov. 30, 2023
Jon Osborn - RJ Performance Group
Mental performance coach at RJ Performance Group, Jon Osborn, joins us to talk about how parents can make an impact on their child’s sports experience by understanding his Parents Do’s and Don’ts. He has created a simple cha…
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Nov. 13, 2023
Ryan Forrest- Boston College
We continue with a recent common theme of talking to pitching coaches. Ryan Forrest was the pitching coach for former guest Mike Kazlausky of the Air Force Academy and has now moved on to Boston College. Ryan talks about his…
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Oct. 18, 2023
Wayne Mazzoni - Get Recruited
Wayne Mazzoni is a coach, author, advisor, and has been a speaker at over 500 high schools, coaches’ conventions, and athletic director conventions. As you can imagine, with that type of background, he has an incredible amou…
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Sept. 26, 2023
Clay Cox–Paris Junior College
We always say that there are great coaches at all levels of play, and we’ve had many conversations with some of the best baseball coaches you can find. Clay Cox is the Head Baseball Coach at Paris Junior College in Paris, Te…
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Sept. 16, 2023
Nick Lorusso – 2023 NY Mets Draft Pick - University of Maryland
From Masuk High School in Monroe, Ct to Villanova University to the University of Maryland to the New York Mets. Nick Lorusso has been on a journey that very few get to experience. His trek has involved hard work, self-disci…
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