[USML Announce] Fantasyland and An Old USML Friend

Brad Jansen bljansen at gmail.com
Sun Apr 23 19:50:55 EDT 2006


Did these "interesting stories" re: Pujols involve Jeff Winick?



On 4/23/06, Richard E. Robbins <RERobbins at itinker.net> wrote:
>
> I finally picked up a copy of Fantasyland and started reading it this
> evening.
>
> On pages 56 and 57 Sam Walker describes a meeting between Ron Shandler and
> someone named Jeff Luhnow.
>
> At the time, Luhnow had been recently hired by the Cardinals as its Vice
> President of Baseball Development.
>
> As described in the book, Luhnow had approached Sandler to be a member of
> an outside board of advisers Luhnow was forming to help the Cardinals make
> personnel decisions.
>
> Here's something that's not in the book.
>
> Before Luhnow joined the Cardinals, he was president of a company called
> Archetype Solutions.  Archetype was formed by a group of apparel industry
> guys who wanted to come up with a process to provide low quantity custom fit
> clothing online.  They hired away an old friend who happened to be working
> in Chicago at the time to be their general counsel.  That friend is USML
> alum Steve Campo (he of the short-lived Dirty Water Dogs).  Steve left our
> league when he moved to California to join Archetype.  When Jeff Luhnow
> formed his board of advisers (the one discussed in the book) he also invited
> Steve Campo to join.
>
> I've not talked to Steve in a while.  I think he still works on the board
> of advisers with Jeff Luhnow. Steve told me some interesting stories a while
> back when the Cardinals gave Pujols a contract extension.
>
> -- Rich
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