Paul Babcock played baseball for Gordie at St. Francis in the early 90s. Paul rose from super-sub to the hero of the 1993 national championship. Paul has become a successful teacher and baseball coach, passing on to his athletes the great life-long lessons that Gordie...
Dave Laketa played baseball for Gordie in the 70’s at the University of St. Francis and became sports information director at St. Francis which led to his eventually becoming Director of Athletics. Dave played for Gordie, worked with Gordie, was Gordie’s...
Dr. John Planek is the Director of Athletics at Lewis University. John coached with the legendary Ray Meyer at DePaul University and Gordie played for Ray. So both John and Gordie learned superlative lessons from Ray. Thus John’s insight into Gordie’s Ten...
Joe Falese played baseball for Gordie at Lewis College in the 70’s. Then Joe became a coach and with Gordie’s motivation Joe earned a graduate degree and became an administrator at Lewis, rising to become vice-president, all because of Gordie’s...
Dr. Joseph “Tippy” McFadden was Gordie’s close friend and fellow coach at Joliet Catholic and Lewis College when Gordie encouraged Tippy to pursue his doctorate degree. Tippy went on to become president of three universities. He tells us that his...