Fun While It Lasted writer Andrew Crossley, a former general manager in minor league baseball and professional soccer and former sports management course designer & instructor at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell and Endicott College, is available as a podcast guest and for press interviews.
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Typical subject areas:
- The forgotten sports teams of your city or region (he will walk you through the who/what/where/when of defunct sports teams of your local area). USA and Canada only.
- Why minor league or unconventional sports teams fail or thrive (trends & examples).
- Strange but true storytelling from the lunatic fringe of the pro sports universe: the characters, crooks, hucksters and and unheralded heroes of American’s most quixotic sports ventures.
- Breaking into sports. Job-seeking and hiring in professional sports front offices.
Podcast Appearances
November 10, 2021
Andy sits in with Cincy Shirts Podcast host P.F. Wilson from Old School Shirts to to discuss how defunct leagues and teams of the past profoundly shaped the sports landscape of today, whether the NFL Draft is superior entertainment to spring football leagues like the XFL (spoiler: yes), Blue Man Group as a barometer on the wisdom of building minor league baseball stadiums, and the Fun While It Lasted / Old School Shirts collaboration on World Team Tennis throwback shirts,
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December 21, 2020
Andy joins Good Seats Still Available host Tim Hanlon, OurSportsCentral.com founder Paul Reeths, and soccer/lacrosse public historian Steve Holroyd to bid good riddance to 2020, hitting on the XFL, Minor League Baseball contraction, Major League Lacrosse, the Washington Football Team and more.
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December 10, 2020
Andrew talks Minor League Baseball contraction news, crashing the Baseball Winter Meetings, soccer supporters culture vs. minor league baseball shtick culture, and more on former Beloit Snappers and Delmarva Shorebirds staffer Bobby Coon’s Pulling Tarp podcast.
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December 22, 2019
Andy joins Good Seats Still Available host Tim Hanlon and OurSportsCentral.com founder Paul Reeths to bid adieu to 2019 and to several sports leagues that didn’t survive the year, including the Alliance of American Football and the Arena Football League.
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Press
August 9, 2019
“A 1980’s leopard, 1970’s fringe, and a poor business decision by Donald Trump: You should know about Denver’s defunct ‘junk’ sports teams”
David Sachs, Denverite
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July 6, 2012
“Leslie Osborne helped keep Boston women’s soccer alive”
Amalie Benjamin, The Boston Globe
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