Announcing the 16th annual Hornsby Chapter Winter Meeting!

We’ve once again assembled a Hall of Fame lineup of baseball speakers and presenters for your viewing and listening pleasure. This year features former executives, trailblazing pioneers, and good old fashioned baseball talk.

Due to COVID concerns, the meeting will be held virtually. Registration information is below.

Information

WHEN: January 8th, 2022 at 9:00 AM.  

WHERE: Zoom. Click here to register for the meeting. Once registered, you will receive the meeting URL in an email. Use that link to join the call.  

Lineup

• TAL SMITH is a former baseball executive with tenure in the Cincinnati Reds and New York Yankees organizations. But he is perhaps best known for his time with the Houston Colt .45’s and Astros, for whom he’s served as Farm System Director, General Manager, and President of Baseball Operations. He was so involved in the creation of Minute Maid Park that until 2017, Tal’s Hill was a defining feature of the stadium. In addition, he built a successful business advising MLB clubs on salary arbitration cases. 
• PERRY BARBER started umpiring little league baseball with her identical twin sister Warren in 1981, when women on the diamond were few and far between. In the four decades since that fateful day when she called her first strike, Perry has umpired every level of amateur and professional baseball all over the world, including major league exhibitions in the United States and Japan, the fabled Cape Cod League, Division I college ball, the independent Atlantic League, and international competitions abroad. Her goal now is to ensure that women umpires who follow in her plate shoes will have a gynocentric infrastructure of support and upward progress that until now has been lacking, so they too can one day defer to the robots. 
• TIM JACKSON is the General Manager of the Round Rock Express. He joined the Express staff in March of 2010. He was promoted to General Manager in October 2015 after serving as Assistant GM, Baseball Operations for one season. Tim oversees the day-to-day business and baseball operations of the team.  
• MIKE CAPPS serves as the Director of Broadcasting for the Round Rock Express and has been the voice of the Express since day one. An author, reporter and T.V. anchor, Mike brings over 25 years of news experience to the Express. He has been broadcasting baseball for the last 19 years, including three major league games with ESPN Radio, one in 2005 and two in 1998.
• Additional presentations from Hornsby Chapter members Dan Walsh, Jim Baker, and Jan Larson.
• Activities including mock Hall of Fame balloting and memorabilia sharing.