The "All-Star" Break
This year's top performers
We’re officially in the second half of 2024, and I’ve got some downtime as I look for more people to interview (reminder: any interview referral you give me gets a FREE PAID subscription for you and the interviewee!). Since January, I’ve published 40 interviews, so let’s go look at the 5 I enjoyed most. All 41 are all-stars in my book, but the rules say only five on the field for this one, so here goes. All 5 posts have been unlocked (some are deep in the archives behind that paywall, but if you haven’t read these ones, these are the best of the lot).
Interview #36: 1974's Two-Way Prospect
What happens when you take a top high school prospect who can run, hit, and throw heat from the left side, and draft him to a team whose front office is more chaotic than the Trump administration? You get the story of Donnie Alfano, once scouted to be a top pick in the 1974 MLB amateur draft as…
Interview #5: Lisa Modglin, the CPA in Center Field
Background: Born in 1985, Lisa is a native of Simi Valley, CA and attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where she played softball all four years for the Mustangs. She played professionally for the Akron Racers and New England Riptide of the now-defunct National Pro Fastpitch league before moving on to accounting. A lifelong Dodgers fan, she now lives in De…
Interview #24: Award-Winning Baseball Painter
Intro Graig Kreindler is an award-winning artist who is known for his detailed and accurate recreations of baseball players and moments from all eras. His full portfolio is at his website: Graig Kreindler. He grew up near New York City, born in 1980 to two baseball fans and fell in love with art and baseball at a young age. His story shows that when pers…
Interview #9: Sarah Dumaop, Grieving A's Fan
Background: Sarah (Michael) Dumaop was born in 1986 and grew up in Danville, California. She went to college at UCSD and then medical school in the Milwaukee area. She eventually returned to the Bay Area, living in Oakland and now Alamo, CA where she got to cheer on her hometown A’s again in person. She spends much of her free time with her family, incl…
Interview #20: Daron Sutton, Carol Wilsey-Sutton and Lexi Wilsey-Sutton
Intro So this one’s going to be a little longer because it’s three people’s stories in one. When I reached out to Carol for an interview, she was excited and said she’d bring her husband and youngest daughter along. At the time, I was worried about how my amateur interviewing skills would handle three people at…
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