Aug. 26, 2023

National Baseball Columnist/NYT Best Selling Author Tim Brown

Award winning national baseball columnist and NYT Best Selling Author Tim Brown Joins the show to discuss his latest book “The Tao Of The Backup Catcher”

Mets announce that Doc and Darryl will have their numbers retired next season

Ohtani and Trout both injured before weekend series at Citi Field

Former St.Johns Mens Tennis coach Frank Russo previews the US Open

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Award winning national baseball columnist and NYT Best Selling Author Tim Brown Joins the show to discuss his latest book “The Tao Of The Backup Catcher” Mets announce that Doc and Darryl will have their numbers retired next season Ohtani and Trout both injured before weekend series at Citi Field Former St.Johns Mens Tennis coach Frank Russo previews the US Open We ask that you please donate to help support our Co-host Brett Grosso as his father recovers from major heart surgery https://gofund.me/69f33dcb

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Frank Russo

Sayville High School Class of 99

NCRC’s own Frank Russo has served as an integral part of the development of the High Performance Program working with many of our top players. He thrives on helping players take that next step in their mental toughness.

Frank came to NCRC having spent previous years as the Assistant Men’s Tennis Coach at St. John’s University where he helped the Men’s Tennis team to a 19-6 record in 2019. Through his efforts the entire Red Storm coaching staff was named the “2019 BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year.”

Prior to Russo’s time at St. John’s University, he was the Assistant Tennis Coach at Fordham University for both the Men’s and Women’s programs. Here, Frank lead the Women’s team to a 20-win season reaching the semifinals of the Atlantic-10 conference tournament in 2016-17.

Frank Russo has spent his career working with High Level Junior players and developing new players along the way. NCRC and St. Luke’s School are lucky to have such a decorated and devoted coach taking the helm

Tim Brown

Author/Sports Columnist

Tim Brown is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning national sports columnist covering Major League Baseball most recently at Yahoo! Sports for nearly 15 years. He formerly served as a national baseball columnist at the Los Angeles Times and freelanced for the Wall Street Journal, and also had stints as a reporter earlier in his career at The Star-Ledger, Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Los Angeles Daily News.

Tim is a renowned, award-winning sportswriter with a national reputation for writing human interest stories, ranging from in-depth features on Mike Trout to Derek Jeter to Kim Ng throughout their careers, to covering broader cultural issues in sports from controversy around steroid usage in the game, as well as the under representation of Black baseball players. He also has written personal essays, spotlighted local efforts to elevate underprivileged youth baseball players, and championed women rising through the ranks of the League.

Earlier in his career, Tim covered the Los Angeles Lakers for the Los Angeles Times for five years, writing hundreds of stories and front-page features about the storied championship team in the era of Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.

As a New York Times bestselling author, he's written two non-fiction books. The first, in 2013, was a biography about Jim Abbott, a candid and reflective life story, about his journey as a one-handed pitcher. The second book, released in 2018, chronicled the rise, fall and comeback of pitcher-turned-outfielder Rick Ankiel.

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