• Bobby V tell  us his stories from his book, Valentine’s Way
• Transition from Player to Manager
• Roving instructor in Minor Leagues to coaching 3rd base on NY Mets
• Texas Rangers bringing in Analytics
• Bringing in Tom Howe as Strength & Conditioning coach for Rangers
• Introducing Pitch Count as a tool to Extend Nolan Ryan’s career 
• Goose Gossage from Plant City
• Working with Steve Buechelle & Tom Grieve
• Bobby V works to build a new stadium for Texas
• Teams needing a new stadium used Tampa as a tease to where they may move
• 1st non-Japanese person to manage a team in Japan w/ Chiba Lotte Marines
• Managed the New York Mets for 7 years
• Now advising the GM for the LA Angels seeing Mike Trout & Shohei Ohtani everyday
• Left Japan for Mets offer. The offer was not as initially advertised
• Bobby’s journeys with Mentor & Friend, Tommy Lasorda with travels from Ogden Utah, Spokane, Dominican Republic, Santa Domingo, Venezuela & Caracas
• Tommy Lasorda joins Bobby V at the All-Star game & avoids collision with the bat of Vladimir Guerrero Sr. 
• Giants Defensive End & Hall of Famer, Andrew Robustelli introduces Bobby to Tom Landry
• “Make sure your coaches speak your language” - advice from Tom Landry to keep your lines of communication open with your coaching staff. 
• Japan ritual after winning - hoist manager into the air 3x as symbol of trust and being together.
• 100 Fenway - Boston brought in to weed out the weak, clean up the mess, chicken & beer & dissension. 
• Director of Athletics at Sacred Heart University
• Now active with the Los Angeles Angels
• Passion is what you want to follow - What you are good as it what you should pursue.

Baseball sports book,  Valentine’s Way by Bobby Valentine is available in hardback & Kindle formats
https://www.amazon.com/Valentines-Way-Adventurous-Life-Times/dp/1637580940/ref=monarch_sidesheet 

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