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, bnll in Lcxingron is nnpgy- you get up early, work as hard as you can work, always tell the truth, and do ev-
gllclcclf Says UK’5 ncaa erything you say you`re going to do, then you`ll always be successful."
bascball conch jghn It’s a philosophy Stein encourages with his Legends staff as well as his family. .
Cohen. He has three children, stepson Wade Hancock, a sophomore at UK; son Scooter,
AS wc cnn; I catch gl a sophomore at Henry Clay High School, and daughter Hadley, a freshman, also
glimpse ol his gyccn nncl at Henry Clay. He and his wife, State Representative Kathy Wright Stein, UK
blug cnnlnpionsnip I-ing Law ’83, have been married for 17 years.
Q from limi gtorigd 2()()l in- For Alan Stein, success means having a vision. ‘“If you close your eyes at night
nngnml Scn$on_ l-lc nonccg and you dream about what it looks like, there are two things you can do. You can
my glance and says say, these are the resources that I have, how close can I get to that with these re-
pl·onclly_ “l’|l always wcny sources? Or, you can be a dreamer, a person with a vision, and you say, this is
this ring. until they get me what success looks like, tell me what resources I need to get there. You find them,
another one." Maybe this and you go do it."
year`s the year, he adds.
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season is around the cor- _ _ _ I _ ., I . .
_ , . . . _ staff to start at the to to et there. sa s Le ends General Mana er Kevin Kul . I
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(An  thm;] mk him tc; Southwest Michigan Devil Rays in Battle Creek, and he and Shea have plans to l
l . ` hase five or six more including perhaps some indoor football or minor i
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championship win their league ‘“’°k€Y {Canis . . . Q
SIIMH IB (mc Of the {O mi_ "We want to do in the aggregate across our teams two to three million in at-  
` “ I ` “` I _ . p _ tendance per year, with $40-60 million in revenues.That would duplicate what the ·
noi league teams in terms I . I I . L .
Ol. attendance and all the major league teams do, without the 6)-70 percent investment they have to make
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I himself VN Il hir Sur med Here at home, Stem s goal with Applebee’s Park rs to make it an entertain- .
I ` J ` ‘ .   ` ment venue 365 days a year — offering concerts and other events outside base- I
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i umd {W Luccegss he W S at the park’s front gates and say,"I had no idea this is what you had in mind." .
A ¥“_{ll€‘_ 6t.`hCm; And his/H And he tells them it’s exactly what he imagined. After all, he had a vision. I
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l appropriate for a locker Robin Fioenker ’98 AS is a freelance writer in Lexington.  
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