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Former Atlanta Braves Players Bring Youth Baseball Headquarters and Tournaments to Central Florida's Polk County

By Anonymous

Polk County, FL January 25 2004--Four former Major League Baseball standouts have reached an agreement with International Travel Baseball to create a partnership and join the two organizations. International Travel Baseball will now operate as Terry Pendleton Baseball and will continue to run tournaments throughout the country. The headquarters of the company will also move to Polk County and operations will be run out of a local office. “We are proud to team up with Terry Pendleton Baseball and become partners,” said Bing Tyus, who will become the National Tournament Director for Pendleton Baseball. “ We are anticipating much more success and we will be bringing many more tournaments to Polk County,” said Tyus. Tyus was previously Director of International Travel Baseball, an organization that held wood bat tournaments here in Polk County as well as around the nation, and will now join forces with the already established Terry Pendleton Baseball. The first Terry Pendleton Baseball tournament held in Polk County will be the Wood Bat World Championships, taking place June 20-26 in Winter Haven.

With the addition of Terry Pendleton Baseball, Polk County is now home to four governing body headquarters. The Independent Softball Association (ISA), USA Waterski, the Futures Golf Tour also call Polk County home. “We are very proud of the relationships we have formed with the organizations that operate out of Polk County,” said Mark Jackson, Director of Polk County Sports Marketing. “It says a lot about our partnerships, sports infrastructure and the people of this county that so many organizations want to be a part of our community. It also illuminates the importance of our diverse approach to sports marketing which includes both tourist and economic development,” Jackson said.
The organization, owned by former Atlanta Brave stars Terry Pendleton, Greg McMichael, Mark Lemke and Bobby Holley, began in 2002 by giving youth baseball players a place to go for first-class instruction and training. The newly formed partnership will now allow both organizations to benefit with extreme potential for growth. Before the partnership, Terry Pendleton Baseball operated as Hardball Warehouse, offering lessons and instruction at indoor training facilities, but as a result of the newly formed partnership, will grow operations to include tournaments and leagues across the country. “We will start out with about 5,000 teams around the country and our goal is to have 10,000 by the year 2007,” said Tyus. Talks of the partnership began during the American Baseball Coaches Association meeting January 2-4 in San Antonio that Tyus attended with Polk County Sports Marketing. Pendleton, who played in Major League Baseball for 15 years, is a managing partner in the organization, while former Brave pitcher, Greg McMichael runs the day-to-day operations.

An initiative of the Polk County Board of County Commissioners, Polk County Sports Marketing is responsible for recruiting sporting events to Polk County and marketing the county as a venue for competitive sporting events and recreational sports such as golf, bicycling and water skiing/boating. During the past year, more than 130 PCSM-assisted events generated in excess of $70 million in economic benefits for Polk County. In recognition of this and other accomplishments, the Florida Sports Foundation honored PCSM with its coveted “Sports Commission of the Year” award in 2002. General information on sports in Polk County can be found by visiting the PCSM website at www.centralfloridasports.com.
                                                                          






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FRED CLAIRE JOINS BULLPEN BASEBALL PARTNERS

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    FRED CLAIRE JOINS BULLPEN BASEBALL PARTNERS

    Former Los Angeles Dodgers Executive Vice-President Fred Claire has joined the investment group Bullpen Baseball Partners as a consultant.

    Bullpen Baseball Partners is an investment group that plans to acquire Minor League Baseball teams (web site: www.BullpenBaseballPartners.com).

    The announcement of Claire’s role was made by Kurt Colicchio, one of the principals of the company. Colicchio is a minority owner of the Yakima Bears, a team in the Northwest League.

    “The objective of Bullpen Baseball Partners is to acquire minor league teams whose value and annual operations may be enhanced by the sports business expertise of the principals and consultants of the company,” said Colicchio. “Fred Claire served as a member of the Dodger front office for 30 years and he brings a great deal of experience and expertise to our company.”

         Colicchio said that Jim McCurdy, president of the Pioneer League with more than 17 years of experience in professional baseball, also would serve as a consultant to Bullpen Baseball Partners.

    Claire joined the Dodgers in 1969 and advanced from publicity director of the team to the position of Executive Vice-President with responsibility for player personnel decisions and baseball operations.

    In a distinguished career with the Dodgers, Claire served the team as publicity director; vice president of public relations, promotions and marketing; Executive Vice President in charge of day-to-day operations; and Executive VP in charge of player personnel. Claire was saluted as Major League Baseball’s “Executive of the Year” in l988 as the Dodgers won the World Series.

    Since his departure from the Dodgers in June of 1998, Claire has maintained an active schedule as an instructor at the University of Southern California and as a consultant for SportsTrac Systems of Boulder, Colorado. Claire also writes a weekly column on baseball for SportsTicker.

    McCurdy is a member of Minor League Baseball’s Council of League Presidents. He is a past member of the Minor League Baseball Board of Trustees, and he served as mediator of the Minor League Constitutional Convention in 1992 for the restructure of the Minor League Baseball governing body.

McCurdy currently serves as a manager of the LLC operating the Yakima Bears. He is a Professor of Law at the Gonzaga University School of Law and among the classes he teaches is one on sports law, and he is the co-author of Sports Law, 4th ed. (2000), which focuses upon legal issues facing professional and amateur sports.

For more information: info@bullpenbaseballpartners.com


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SEE YOURSELF AS A WINNER

By Sharon Dalton Williams

Whether or not you follow baseball, I’m sure you’ve heard of
the New York Yankees baseball team. This team won the World
Series three years in a row in 1998, 1999, and 2000, in
addition to the many other wins from years past.

The baseball playoffs were played during October, 2001. The
Yankees made it to the playoffs because of their winning
record during the season. The first hurdle they had to get
over in order to play in the 2001 World Series was the
American League Championship.

When the American League Championship started, the first two
games were played at Yankee Stadium. Teams rarely won on
Yankees’ home turf. But the Yankees lost the first two games
of the league championship.

The odds were not in the Yankees’ favor. They had lost the
first two games, and they were headed to another stadium in
front of other fans to continue play. Some of the sports
news coming out already had the Yankees losing the league
championship. A number of teams at this juncture would have
given up hope of winning.

I found it interesting that whenever Yankee players were
interviewed, never once did they even hint that they might
lose. They looked back over their season record. They looked
around at the caliber of their fellow players. They looked
inside themselves. All they talked about was how they were
going to win.

And win they did. They won the final three games of the
league championship and advanced to the division championship.
They eventually made it to the World Series because they saw
themselves as winners.

Here’s a million dollar question for you - how do you see
yourself? Do you see yourself as a winner, especially in your
online business?

A winner:

1) Hangs in until success breaks through.

2) Remembers past victories and knows victory will come again.

3) Looks at rough circumstances as opportunities for growth.

4) Thinks success, speaks success, acts success.

5) Helps others succeed.

If you want to make it to the next level in business, then you
will need to see yourself as a winner!

Sharon Dalton Williams is a Christian freelance writer whose
goal is to change the world one word at a time. Subscribe to
her weekly column, *From Sharon’s Pen,* at
http://www.sharondaltonwilliams.com.

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