Thanks to all our managers who signed up, contributed to our rules poll and are ready to make this league truly “the best of the best!”
We have a proven group of managers with decades of experience, victories from more than two dozen leagues and proven track records of success, fair play, sportsmanship and importantly, consideration of others by keeping up with the league and being an active manager.
Here is the list of founding managers of The Champions League:
| OWNER | Team Name | Favorite Strato Memory |
| Justin Nagel | Hebron Huskies | Face to face football Super Bowl in 12 man league. |
| Bernie Sheehe | Montana Explorers | Max Fried throwing no hitter in game 7 of ALCS. |
| Ron White | Charlotte Hornets | Very recently…my first no hitter (Ohtani). |
| Wayne Cannon | Cannon’s Cowboys | Winning National STAR tournament in LV 2006. |
| Tom Stephens | Ohio Juggernauts | Winning the inaugural season of the FDBL- Maddux, Smoltz, Gallaraga, Edgar Martinez were the core 4. |
| John Moscariello | Shoreline Sockeyes | Perfect game by Kaeta Maeda in 2021 I think. |
| Jeff Miller | Oolitic Palookas | |
| Michael Jimenez | Norfolk Tides | Playing for the first time with my dad when I was 6 years old. |
| Andy Houk | Mudville Nine | Brendan Donovan hitting a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 17th inning to win game 3 en route to the 2024 BVL Championship. This is the series when I was facing John Stryker. There were 4 walk-offs in 5 games. It was insane. |
| Dan Hoyt | Merrimack Valley Red Sox | 2015 version, Game 7 of WS, down 7-5, 2 outs, no one on, in top 9th, Segura (.240) vs Betances, scratches out a single, we get 3 runs, the last 2 on a Carlos Gomez 2 run single, and win the WS! |
| Jeff Berens | Wausau Crew | |
| Mike Turpin | Northwest Wolves | One of my retro teams threw a no-hitter against the first place team. |
| Larry Byk | Arizona Desert Rats | Pujols hitting 6 home runs in a 22 inning playoff game. |
| Rick Blount | Space City Cowboys | winning 127 games and going wire to wire and never playing more than 5 games in the playoffs….best team ever |
| John Stryker | Wheeling Screamers | Dave Martinez ’86 hitting a nearly impossible walkoff grand slam against Greg Maddux ’86 in the Greater Columbus league, August 1987 |
| Bret Weigel | Northwoods Wolfpack | |
| Jack Frost | Galesburg Wizards | |
| Jeff Weiss | Bellagio Big Slick | Throwing two Rich Hill no hitters in the same season but in different leagues. |
| Eric Kesselman | Mega-City Gimps | Winning the world series and having multiple first round picks, including a top 4 |
| Dave Moutray | San Francisco Light Sabers | Still early enough to think my best is yet to come. |
| Craig Ticalo | Hawaii Islanders | 2022 title. |
| Greg Day | Ancaster Royals | |
| sabatini | Toscana Vespas | Dave Stieb pulling a Madison Bumgartner before MadBum was born and almost single-handidly pitching The Chumps to my first championship ever in 1983. |
| Brandon Nagel | SC Shoeless Joes |
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