AMSTERDAM UNICORNS

Coach Bob Gale

Bio:

One advantage of having lived my particular life is that cultivating humility isn’t an issue. Being humble kind of comes with the territory.

I work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Classroom Support area of Information and Media Technology, as a supervisor/media specialist, and have been there a little over two years. I worked at Marquette University in the same capacity previously. Also, I have a baseball job during the season working for MLB.com as a datacaster, for Milwaukee Brewers games, and have been doing that for about ten years, the last five of which have been for MLB.com. I also have been doing “on-line support” for MLB.com for several years.

 Mainly I’m a baseball fan, but have always liked football almost as much, and have followed both closely all my life. Where I grew up in Audubon, Iowa we had a great high school football team, ranked #5 in the state at one time. And I’ve been an Iowa Hawkeye fan since birth. I was a pitcher on the high school baseball team and was on a college golf team for one year.

 My biggest claim to “fame” is once being interviewed by Bill Kinsella, who wrote “Shoeless Joe”, the book upon which “Field of Dreams” was based. He had a weekly radio show in Canada and I had just returned from the Harry Wendelstedt School for Umpires in Daytona Beach. That was in 1982. His wife (Annie) was a good friend of my wife’s at the time.

 I was born in Sioux City, Iowa on May 24, 1949. I’ll let you do the math, if you can add that high. I’m married and have one son who is 24 and lives in Flagstaff, AZ. For those scoring at home, actually I got re-married a couple of years ago and also now have two (adult) stepsons and one step-grandson. My wife, Julie, is a nurse.

 My son and I like to travel to different national parks every year and go camping for about a week. The last two years we’ve gone out to Yosemite National Park. Also I like to play golf, go to Brewers games even when I’m not working at one and do the various leagues that I’ve joined.

 I just finished my first season in the United States Internet Football League (USIFL). My team (which I had basically inherited from a previous owner) made the playoffs, and then lost in the first round. I was previously in the Utah Football League for a couple of years back in the mid-90’s. In baseball, I’m a member of the MAX League and BRASS League (both Strat). Also, I play in the APBA basketball league (Strat).

 As far as my team name, the Amsterdam Unicorns, it’s pretty simple. Amsterdam is my favorite city in the world, of those I have visited personally. In this country I like San Francisco and Portland. And the unicorn is a beautiful, elegant, mythical, magical beast. What I would like to be if I were a, well….beast.