Here's a look at the people who bring you D3baseball.com and information on how you can contact them.Jim Dixon |
Pat Coleman |
Gordon Mann |
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Jim Dixon, Managing Editor, D3baseball.comJim Dixon, the managing editor of D3baseball.com started his Web site, Division III Baseball Online, in 1995 after the first Championship tournament in Salem, Va.
In two years he was the running the Web site for the Old Dominion Athletic Conference and has continued to bring more information about the past and present to fans everywhere. Jim is proud to now call D3baseball.com home.
Dixon, 43 is married to Barbara Day and lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. He can be reached at
jim.dixon@d3baseball.com
Pat Coleman, Executive EditorI've been following Division III sports since the early '90s, ever since the likes of Duquesne, Iona and Georgetown played D-III in football. I'm a 1994 graduate of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and spent time as full-time and interim SID at multiple area institutions. I'm the publisher of D3sports.com and the sites it encompasses: D3baseball.com, D3football.com, D3hoops.com and D3soccer.com. And the other schools I applied to besides Catholic? All D-IIIs: St. John's, Macalester and Oberlin. I've written about Division III sports in USA Today and been interviewed about it on ESPNews and CSTV. I'm a member of the Football Writers Association of America.
By day I am the deputy managing editor of the Verizon Central Newsroom. I've previously worked as copy desk chief at NBCSports.com and spent more than a decade at
USA Today. My wife Cate and I have three children: Elizabeth, Robert and Colleen.
Our mailing address:
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E-mail Pat at
info@d3sports.com.
Gordon Mann, BroadcasterI'm a 2000 graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn. I've lived all over the country including Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern California, the woods of Connecticut and now Central New York.
My first taste of Division III athletics came as co-Sports Director at WRTC 89.3 FM where I called football, basketball and hockey action for my beloved “Clamorin' Clucks.” I've had the opportunity to broadcast a wide range of sports including professional hockey, soccer and even gymnastics for television, radio and the Internet.
I help cover the East region for D3football.com and the East and Mid-Atlantic for D3hoops.com. It's been a blessing to be a part of both sites after spending so much time on them when I should've been studying for my Political Science classes.
Note: After handling public affairs and media relations for a New York State Senator, Gordon has gone back to school, working towards a master's at Penn. It's not D-III, but we'll forgive him this time.
Ralph Turner, Regional CorrespondentRalph Turner is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Plano, Texas, the son of the second baseman on the 1940-41 McMurry Indian baseball teams, and a charter member of the Abner Doubleday/Howard Green Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research in Abilene, Texas.
Ralph became involved with internet D3sports in the winter of 1999-00 as he followed McMurry basketball on D3hoops.com. The Internet permitted him to follow his alma mater as had not been previously possible.
Notable baseball accomplishments include taking his younger daughter (softball, RHP) to Cooperstown, sitting in the left field bleachers at Arlington Stadium with his extended family for Nolan Ryan's 5,000th strikeout (Rickey Henderson), participating in a conference call to his father and his brother from a pay phone in Fort Wayne, Ind. as he listened to Nolan Ryan's 6th no-hitter on his car radio in June 1990, and sharing his father's last major league game in the reserved seats belonging to a New York Yankee Hall of Famer. (The Indians beat the Rangers.)
Fond baseball memories: "Having a catch" with his ailing father in his driveway, learning to keep score from his father and mother and softball pitching practice in the 40 degree temperatures of the basement of a parking garage in the middle of winter with his daughters.
