Today's call features Scott Stahlecker & Jeff Leise from the Nebraska Prospects. We have a great conversation where I learn a lot about the landscape of baseball in Nebraska. And for the 1st time in nearly 40 episodes we discuss competing for players against... wait for it... American Legion teams. Yep. True story. 

I hope you enjoy this episode of Travel Ball Talk.

https://www.playinschool.com/leise

Today's call features Rich Leitch, Director of Baseball for the Toronto Mets Baseball Club. It's incredible learning about how the Canadian players & coaches have to go the extra mile, literally & figuratively, to achieve the goal of playing college baseball here in America.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Travel Ball Talk.

https://www.playinschool.com/leitch

Today's episode features Jim Osting, the founder & owner Ostingers Baseball near Tamps, Florida. Jim is the classic example of the 10 year "overnight success". He's been steadily & slowly building his organization for the last decade and all of the sudden the Ostingers are near the top of the rankings at every age group.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Travel Ball Talk.

https://www.playinschool.com/osting

This weeks episode features brothers from Kansas. Scott & Clark Jones are the owners of Natural Baseball, just outside of Kansas City. We have a great conversation that covers a lot topics including blending old school with new school as well as some creative scheduling that helps get their guys more looks.

https://www.playinschool.com/jones

Today's episode has us returning to the great state of Minnesota to talk to Adam Barta, the founder of Blizzard Elite Baseball. Words like "culture" & "values" get thrown around a lot in sports these days. But it's not something that can be faked. Listening to Adam discussing what they call the "Blizzard Big 5" absolutely blew me away.

https://www.playinschool.com/barta

Today’s episode is going to bring some great insight because we’re talking to a guy that quite literally just left coaching college baseball in the past few weeks. Cody Church was the head coach of Maryville College before stepping down to take a job in sales & to join Exposure Baseball. Exposure Baseball has been 1 of the top travel ball orgs in the state of Tennessee over the last several years & as we learn from Cody, they are looking beyond Tennessee now.

https://www.playinschool.com/church

Today's episode takes us to Boston, Mass to feature a former 1st Round Draft pick & current YouTube star. Matt Antonelli founded Antonelli Baseball after his professional career ended & while he was coaching in college. While finishing college & starting his organization, he also found time to grow a huge YouTube following.

http://www.playinschool.com/antonelli

Today's episode features our first program named after a current MLB All-Star. Sean Danielson is the owner of Hunter Pence Baseball Academy in Cypress, Texas.

Sean tells us how he went from being a 2 way guy, to being just a pitcher, to being just a hitter and how that lead to pro baseball & quite possibly the best signing story & nickname I've ever heard.

HPBA has been making quite a name for itself lately. This includes hosting a draft watch party for 1 of their very own guys that heard his name called in the 1st Round of the 2019 Draft. He describes the event & the last impact he thinks that event will have on their guys.

Today's episode features Mario Jimenez, the Director of Baseball at Inspiration Academy in Bradenton, Florida.

If you've been following Travel Ball Talk, this episode is a kind of convergence of 2 topics that seem to have weaved together here into 1... the idea of faith & baseball combined with the academy concept.

Prior to diving into everything that AI offers, we learn how Mario went from a completely unrecruited high school player to coaching MLB hitters.

Today's episode takes us back to Colorado to talk to Scott Hormann. Scott is the Colorado Area Director for USA Prime. This is an interesting conversation that touches on why he made the decision to part ways with the brand he started to team up with USA Prime, which is a growing organization based in Texas.

I hope you enjoy this episode of Travel Ball Talk.

http://www.playinschool.com/hormann