We're joined in this episode by Andy Appleby, founder and owner of the 4-team United Shore Professional Baseball League in Utica, MI.
Andy has spent a lifetime working in the sports business, beginning out of Springfield (MA) College with the Detroit Pistons before ultimately founding General Sports Worldwide. It was through this enterprise that he wound up becoming chairman and owner of the Derby County (England) Football Club and owner of the Midwest League's Fort Wayne (IN) Wizards (now the TinCaps).
The USPBL just completed its eighth season of competition between the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers, Eastside Diamond Hoppers, Utica Unicorns, and Westside Woolly Mammoths.
During our time with Andy we touch on just about everything from being a fan to being an employee to being an owner and how's attempted to marry the three at the USPBL. Andy even notes how "Welcome to Wrexham" is a pretty close representation to what it was like in Derby County.
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