[USML Announce] Fantasyland and An Old USML Friend

[Richard Robbins]

Sadly -- no.
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From: "Brad Jansen" <bljansen at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:50:53 
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Subject: Re: [USML Announce] Fantasyland and An Old USML Friend

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




On 4/23/06, Richard E. Robbins <
RERobbins at itinker.net: <mailto: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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