42 min
Ep. 114: Ryan Lefebvre and his One Good Thing C-10 Mentoring & Leadership Podcast
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Periodically since February, we’ve been introducing you to the remarkable people featured in the new book, "One Good Thing."
This week, you’re going to “meet” Ryan Lefebvre. We're putting "meet" in quotation marks because although you likely know Ryan’s work as a Royals broadcaster for 25 years, you’re going to hear a different side of Ryan in this conversation, as we chat about race, how George Brett’s brother helped Ryan get his first real glove, and how that led to a project that’s put gloves on the hands of hundreds of boys and girls in Kansas City. And much more.
Ryan grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a former Major League player and manager, before going to the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, where he was a first-team all-Big 10 selection in 1993.
He spent the first four years of his major-league broadcasting career with the Minnesota Twins before coming to Kansas City in 1999, replacing the popular Fred White. (He mentions that in this conversation.)
Ryan is the founder of Gloves for Kids, which has raised money for youth programs in Kansas and Missouri since 2001. In 2011, he was the recipient of the John J. “Buck” O’Neil MVP Award for his commitment to youth in Kansas City. In 2015, Ryan was named the recipient of the Olathe NAACP Diversity in Sports Award.
LINKS:
To order the new book, "One Good Thing," from Amazon, go here.
To get a copy of "One Good Thing" signed by Dayton Moore, click here.
Register here for the 2nd Annual C You At Topgolf event.
For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.
To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring, visit our secure donation page.
For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.
If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.
Periodically since February, we’ve been introducing you to the remarkable people featured in the new book, "One Good Thing."
This week, you’re going to “meet” Ryan Lefebvre. We're putting "meet" in quotation marks because although you likely know Ryan’s work as a Royals broadcaster for 25 years, you’re going to hear a different side of Ryan in this conversation, as we chat about race, how George Brett’s brother helped Ryan get his first real glove, and how that led to a project that’s put gloves on the hands of hundreds of boys and girls in Kansas City. And much more.
Ryan grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a former Major League player and manager, before going to the University of Minnesota on a baseball scholarship, where he was a first-team all-Big 10 selection in 1993.
He spent the first four years of his major-league broadcasting career with the Minnesota Twins before coming to Kansas City in 1999, replacing the popular Fred White. (He mentions that in this conversation.)
Ryan is the founder of Gloves for Kids, which has raised money for youth programs in Kansas and Missouri since 2001. In 2011, he was the recipient of the John J. “Buck” O’Neil MVP Award for his commitment to youth in Kansas City. In 2015, Ryan was named the recipient of the Olathe NAACP Diversity in Sports Award.
LINKS:
To order the new book, "One Good Thing," from Amazon, go here.
To get a copy of "One Good Thing" signed by Dayton Moore, click here.
Register here for the 2nd Annual C You At Topgolf event.
For more information about the C-10 Mentoring & Leadership program for high school students, visit our website.
To make a financial gift to give students life-changing one-on-one mentoring, visit our secure donation page.
For all episodes of the C-10 podcast and ways you can listen, click here.
If you’d like to make a comment, have a suggestion for a future guest, or your company would like to help underwrite this podcast, please visit our contact page.
42 min