About Dan Migala…

Dan Migala , or Danny Ballgame as his friends call him, is a life lover of baseball.

 Dugout Wisdom, a collection of first-person accounts of baseball players' pivotal life moments, is the first baseball book he has penned. It is not, however, his first experience writing about baseball. Starting at the age of 8 years old, Dan would, with his mom as his first editor, write spend his summer nights writing hundreds of letters to baseball players. In the summer of 1985, Dan's correspondence generated a Ripken-like consecutive streak of 143 straight days of receiving a personal letter to his house from a Big Leaguer.

 In his day job, Dan founded The Migala Report, a sports marketing newsletter, to help educate sports marketing executives to help professional and collegiate teams to grow their business. This Chicago-native also has served as a columnist for Sports Business Journal since 1999 and has authored three books on sports marketing.

 A sought-after speaker, you can find him speaking at just about any sports league meeting or commenting on sports business topics for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and other major news outlets.

 His growing marketing expertise helped him be recognized by baseball promotional wizard Mike Veeck who recruited Migala to join the ownership group of the Class A Ft. Myers Miracle that includes other co-owners comedian Bill Murray and musician Jimmy Buffett.

 Dan is a strong proponent of education for sports executives having retained a faculty spot at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University since 2001 and by  teaching courses at Baylor University, Ohio University, San Diego State University and the University of Missouri .

 He earned a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism and a Master of Sports Administration from Ohio University . Dan's friends know him to spend his free time strumming his Gibson guitar, having a good time or simply dreaming up his next big idea to help a team, charity or corporation.

 His most recent "big idea" was advising the Chicago White Sox to change their gametimes to 7:11 p.m. to appease 7-Eleven, a potential sponsor. The idea was sold instantly, achieving many accolades including earning Danny Ballgame a lifetime pass to Cooperstown and making the 8-year old inside of him giddy with joy!