I was born in Chicago and raised in the nearby suburb of Niles, IL in a family with ten other siblings. I’m a 1985 graduate of Niles West High School in Skokie, IL where I was a football and baseball standout. At seventeen-years-old, I was a 6' 2" right-hand pitcher throwing fastballs in the low 90 mph range attracting the attention of college coaches nationwide and Major League scouts. Following high school graduation, my baseball path went like this...

 

 

• Drafted - June 1985 baseball draft ( Pittsburgh Pirates - 3rd round)

 

• Oral Roberts University for the 1985-1986 season: Awarded a full scholarship,

   I declined the Pittsburgh Pirates offer and decided to play Division-1 college

   baseball here. I attended as a student academically, but also to be a pupil of

   the late Major League pitcher turned pitching coach, Jim Brewer.

 

• Anchorage Glacier Pilots Anchorage, AK summer 1986: I spent the summer of

  1986 playing in the Alaska League - a premier collegiate league. That

  team took the championship of the prestigious NBC Summer League

  tournament in Wichita, KS.

 

• Triton College in River Grove, IL for the 1986-1987 season

 

• Drafted - June 1987 baseball draft (Chicago Cubs - 9th round)

 

• The University of Florida for the 1987-1988 season: Awarded Full

  Scholarship, I won the super-sectional game sending the university to its first

  College World Series appearance in the school's history. Here's an

  article related to this game and I'm the answer to a trivia question. 

 

• Drafted - June 1988 baseball draft (Montreal Expos - 10th round)

 

• Signed - Montreal Expos 1988-1990: New York Penn League Champions - 1989

 

• Free Agent - California Angels 1990-1991

 

• Signed - Schaumburg Flyers - 2000/2002

 

• Men's Suburban Baseball League - 1995-2018: elected 2015 into Midwest

  Suburban League Hall of Fame

 

• Men's Suburban Baseball League - 2021: Privileged to be endorsed as the

  league's Pitching/Throwing Instructor