One last thing, I saw the reports (I generated them), I saw the decline developing and know the reasons for the split and eventual collapse. Hell yeah there was plenty of arrogance between everyone there. Think about it, ProServ had 95% of every baseball player signed, produced every tennis match worldwide, managed the top athletes in Football, Basketball, Volleyball, and even cycling!
We even took on Ticketmaster with our own service.
Being the IT guy I saw it all.
It was an incredible experience and the skeletons are forever buried.
I was the IT/DP manager for ProServ Corp in Rossllyn VA ifrom 1987-1997 and had the pleasure of going to NY to see Arthur many times (he told me that Sammy Davis JR's mom had originally had his flat) and he was my mentor. I remember how sick we all were when he passed. Donald Dell and Arthur was like brothers. David (Falk), Ivan Blumberg, Jerry Solomon were doing different things but Donald was Arthur's buddy for sure! It was an incredible experience to be working at ProServ and meetings all the cool people I did. Mark McCormick (IMG) was from Cleveland and so was I and the funny thing is that I knew so much about him (TS stuff) and here I am working at ProServ.
Anyway I had to make a post to say what a wonderful man Arthur was and it was such a blast to be walking down the boulevards with him and people stopping him to say hi, and sitting around in a lounge having a beer with him.
I met his beautiful wife and his daughter and their dog!
You are my hero and I am much richer having been around you!
One last thing, I saw the reports (I generated them), I saw the decline developing and know the reasons for the split and eventual collapse. Hell yeah there was plenty of arrogance between everyone there. Think about it, ProServ had 95% of every baseball player signed, produced every tennis match worldwide, managed the top athletes in Football, Basketball, Volleyball, and even cycling!
We even took on Ticketmaster with our own service.
Being the IT guy I saw it all.
It was an incredible experience and the skeletons are forever buried.
Bye
I was the IT/DP manager for ProServ Corp in Rossllyn VA ifrom 1987-1997 and had the pleasure of going to NY to see Arthur many times (he told me that Sammy Davis JR's mom had originally had his flat) and he was my mentor. I remember how sick we all were when he passed. Donald Dell and Arthur was like brothers. David (Falk), Ivan Blumberg, Jerry Solomon were doing different things but Donald was Arthur's buddy for sure! It was an incredible experience to be working at ProServ and meetings all the cool people I did. Mark McCormick (IMG) was from Cleveland and so was I and the funny thing is that I knew so much about him (TS stuff) and here I am working at ProServ.
Anyway I had to make a post to say what a wonderful man Arthur was and it was such a blast to be walking down the boulevards with him and people stopping him to say hi, and sitting around in a lounge having a beer with him.
I met his beautiful wife and his daughter and their dog!
You are my hero and I am much richer having been around you!
Warren