Saturday, May 12, 2012
9:40 PM Sun., May 13th
GLENN STOUT
A full-time author since 1993, since beginning a free-lance career in 1986 Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than eighty books representing sales of almost three million copies. He is the author of Boston Globe bestseller Fenway 1912, awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research, has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991, is author of the award-winning “Good Sports” juvenile series and has written the text for thirty-nine titles in the best-selling Matt Christopher sports biography series for the juvenile market. Stout is also the author of the text for Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Changed the World, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century (selected by Book Magazine one of the five “Best Sports Books of 2002” and a finalist for the Casey Award), Red Sox Century (Casey Award finalist, Seymour Medal finalist, and finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and finalist for the Casey Award. He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection and Chasing Tiger: A Tiger Woods Reader. Stout also works as an editorial consultant for other authors, writes a monthly column for Boston Baseball and has published dozens of articles and columns in publications such as The New York Observer, ESPN.com, Runner’s World, The Sporting News, USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, Sports Illustrated, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine, made numerous television and radio appearances on NPR, HBO, CNN, ESPN and other outlets. Stout has served as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Boston Public Library and spoken before groups such as the New York Historical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Old South Meeting House, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and others.
Glenn Stout is a native of Amlin, Ohio and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a degree in Creative Writing. From 1982 thru 1993 he worked at the Boston Public Library and in 1985 earned a Masters of Science degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. He has also worked as a janitor, a painter, a security guard, a construction worker and sold minor league baseball tickets. A full-time writer since 1993, Stout moved from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2003. He is an avid kayaker and photographer and plays the bodhran, a skin drum, in Irish sessions.
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A full-time author since 1993, since beginning a free-lance career in 1986 Glenn Stout has written, ghostwritten or edited more than eighty books representing sales of almost three million copies. He is the author of Boston Globe bestseller Fenway 1912, awarded the 2012 Seymour Medal by the Society for American Baseball Research, has served as Series Editor of the Best American Sports Writing series since its inception in 1991, is author of the award-winning “Good Sports” juvenile series and has written the text for thirty-nine titles in the best-selling Matt Christopher sports biography series for the juvenile market. Stout is also the author of the text for Young Woman and the Sea: How Trudy Ederle Conquered the English Channel and Changed the World, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, The Dodgers: 120 Years of Dodgers Baseball, Nine Months at Ground Zero, Yankees Century (selected by Book Magazine one of the five “Best Sports Books of 2002” and a finalist for the Casey Award), Red Sox Century (Casey Award finalist, Seymour Medal finalist, and finalist for the New England Book Award in non-fiction), Jackie Robinson: Between the Baselines, Joe DiMaggio: An Illustrated Life and Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures (a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year” and finalist for the Casey Award. He has also edited the anthologies Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam, Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection, Top of the Heap: A Yankees Collection and Chasing Tiger: A Tiger Woods Reader. Stout also works as an editorial consultant for other authors, writes a monthly column for Boston Baseball and has published dozens of articles and columns in publications such as The New York Observer, ESPN.com, Runner’s World, The Sporting News, USA Today’s Baseball Weekly, Baseball America, Sports Illustrated, The New York Daily News, The Boston Globe, and Boston Magazine, made numerous television and radio appearances on NPR, HBO, CNN, ESPN and other outlets. Stout has served as a Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Boston Public Library and spoken before groups such as the New York Historical Society, the Bostonian Society, the Old South Meeting House, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and others.
Glenn Stout is a native of Amlin, Ohio and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He is a graduate of Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York with a degree in Creative Writing. From 1982 thru 1993 he worked at the Boston Public Library and in 1985 earned a Masters of Science degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Boston. He has also worked as a janitor, a painter, a security guard, a construction worker and sold minor league baseball tickets. A full-time writer since 1993, Stout moved from Massachusetts to Vermont in 2003. He is an avid kayaker and photographer and plays the bodhran, a skin drum, in Irish sessions.
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10:05 PM Sun., May 13th
JOE DOUD
Assistant General Managerjoe@vermontlakemonsters.com
Joe joined the Lake Monsters staff in the summer of 2008 as a summer intern and returned in 2009 for the final week of the season to help renew season ticket holder packages. During the summer of 2010, Joe was a Group Sales Representative and also managed the gameday staff before being promoted to Assistant General Manager in September of 2010. He graduated with honors from Colby-Sawyer College with a major in Business Administration and minor in History. Joe grew up in Colchester, Vermont, graduating from Colchester High School in 2005.
Assistant General Managerjoe@vermontlakemonsters.com
Joe joined the Lake Monsters staff in the summer of 2008 as a summer intern and returned in 2009 for the final week of the season to help renew season ticket holder packages. During the summer of 2010, Joe was a Group Sales Representative and also managed the gameday staff before being promoted to Assistant General Manager in September of 2010. He graduated with honors from Colby-Sawyer College with a major in Business Administration and minor in History. Joe grew up in Colchester, Vermont, graduating from Colchester High School in 2005.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
This Sunday, March 18th, 2012
PAT WILLIAMS
(www.PatWilliamsMotivate.com)
Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. As one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 55 books.
Pat served for seven years in the United States Army, spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization—two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office—and has also spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization. Since 1968, he has been in the NBA as general manager for teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia—including the 1983 World Champion 76ers—and now the Orlando Magic, which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA playoffs and five have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by Beckett’s, a national publication.
Pat has been an integral part of NBA history, including bringing the NBA to Orlando. He has traded Pete Maravich as well as traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, and Penny Hardaway, and he has won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins. He signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches, nine have become college head coaches while seven have become assistant NBA coaches.
Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 24 to 37. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.
Pat teaches an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts three weekly radio shows. In the last 13 years, he has completed 54 marathons—including the Boston Marathon 12 times—and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weightlifter, Civil War buff and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro, Tom Seaver and Goose Gossage.
Pat was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master’s degree at Indiana University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Demon Deacon baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is also a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
From Orlando Magic senior vice president and well-known leadership author, Pat Williams, comes a lifetime of leadership experience and study distilled into “the ultimate leadership manual.” LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE: The Seven Sides of Leadership for the 21st Century (Barbour Books, 2012) offers essential guidance drawn from leaders of history and the present—in business, sports, religion, and politics.
Williams has built a library of over 700 leadership books, and after reading all of them he has extracted all of the great insights, stories and practical advice those books contain. In the course of his extensive research on leadership, he became convinced that the fundamental principles of leadership excellence can be distilled into seven basic ingredients, seven profoundly practical insights into what it takes to be an outstanding leader.
(www.PatWilliamsMotivate.com)
Pat Williams is the senior vice president of the NBA’s Orlando Magic. As one of America’s top motivational, inspirational, and humorous speakers, he has addressed thousands of executives in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies and national associations to universities and nonprofits. Clients include AllState, American Express, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Disney, Honeywell, IBM, ING, Lockheed Martin, Nike, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Tyson Foods to name a few. Pat is also the author of over 55 books.
Pat served for seven years in the United States Army, spent seven years in the Philadelphia Phillies organization—two as a minor league catcher and five in the front office—and has also spent three years in the Minnesota Twins organization. Since 1968, he has been in the NBA as general manager for teams in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia—including the 1983 World Champion 76ers—and now the Orlando Magic, which he co-founded in 1987 and helped lead to the NBA finals in 1995. Twenty-three of his teams have gone to the NBA playoffs and five have made the NBA finals. In 1996, Pat was named as one of the 50 most influential people in NBA history by Beckett’s, a national publication.
Pat has been an integral part of NBA history, including bringing the NBA to Orlando. He has traded Pete Maravich as well as traded for Julius Erving, Moses Malone, and Penny Hardaway, and he has won four NBA draft lotteries, including back-to-back winners in 1992 and 1993. He also drafted Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, Maurice Cheeks, Andrew Toney and Darryl Dawkins. He signed Billy Cunningham, Chuck Daly, and Matt Guokas to their first professional coaching contracts. Nineteen of his former players have become NBA head coaches, nine have become college head coaches while seven have become assistant NBA coaches.
Pat and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of 19 children, including 14 adopted from four nations, ranging in age from 24 to 37. For one year, 16 of his children were all teenagers at the same time. Pat and his family have been featured in Sports Illustrated, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, The Wall Street Journal, Focus on the Family, New Man Magazine, plus all of the major television networks, The Maury Povich Show and Dr. Robert Schuller’s Hour of Power.
Pat teaches an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Orlando and hosts three weekly radio shows. In the last 13 years, he has completed 54 marathons—including the Boston Marathon 12 times—and also climbed Mt. Rainier. He is a weightlifter, Civil War buff and serious baseball fan. Every winter he plays in Major League Fantasy Camps and has caught Hall of Famers Bob Feller, Bob Gibson, Fergie Jenkins, Rollie Fingers, Gaylord Perry, Phil Niekro, Tom Seaver and Goose Gossage.
Pat was raised in Wilmington, Delaware, earned his bachelors degree at Wake Forest University, and his master’s degree at Indiana University. He is a member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame after catching for the Demon Deacon baseball team, including the 1962 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship team. He is also a member of the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame.
Leadership Excellence:
The Seven Sides of Leadership for the 21st CenturyBy Pat Williams with Jim Denney
Pat Williams has spent much of his life successfully leading others. The principles he shares on these pages are timeless examples that, when put into practice, will help us all achieve a more effective life of leadership.
New York Giants owner John Mara
Pat Williams is a survivor, an innovator, a motivator and, above all, a LEADER. He has written the new manual for leadership 2.0. Leadership Excellence transcends sports and should be required reading for anyone looking to inspire and motivate others.
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra
Williams has built a library of over 700 leadership books, and after reading all of them he has extracted all of the great insights, stories and practical advice those books contain. In the course of his extensive research on leadership, he became convinced that the fundamental principles of leadership excellence can be distilled into seven basic ingredients, seven profoundly practical insights into what it takes to be an outstanding leader.
Drawn from years of personal experience and hundreds of interviews by Williams, readers will be exposed to the “seven sides of leadership” that apply to leaders of any age, experience and setting:
- Vision
- Communication
- People skills
- Character
- Competence
- Boldness
- A servant’s heart
These seven principles produce results every time they are tried, and each is truly timeless; they are true in every era, in every field and in every successful leader.
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