Jeff Gross, CEO/President/Founder and Director of PRO-DAY Baseball, has been involved in baseball for the past 25 years on all levels.

He was a former professional baseball scout with the Texas Rangers (1989-94) and Chicago Cubs (1994-96). Now, his scouting player information forms go to all 30 major league clubs from the top prospects that attend PRO-DAY Baseball.

A former Part-Owner/President of the Pine Bluff Locomotives, a Class A Independent team in the Big South League of Professional Baseball. His club won the first-half division championship while he helped several players get back to major league affiliations.

He coached college baseball three years each at the University of Arkansas-Monticello and Pensacola Junior College where both colleges had the most successful three year runs in their baseball history.

Seventeen of his former players that he coached on the collegiate and amateur level went on to become coaches themselves. Ten of them coach on the high school level, four as college coaches and three as professional scouts/coaches.

A former first-baseman, who played semi-professional baseball with the Braves in Pine Bluff (AR) who attended Harding University on a baseball scholarship.

Jeff played on five state championship clubs on the amateur level and coached two teams to a state championship, including a fourth place National finish.

His high school team (Pine Bluff High) was ranked ninth and seventh nationally by the USA Today while capturing back-to-back high school titles in 1983-84 with a 38-4 overall record.

Those two state titles were followed by two more which gave PBHS the longest stretch run in Arkansas history and many considered to be the "Best High School Team" that Arkansas ever produced.

He has worked for two of our nations Presidents. George W. Bush, when he served as partner with the Texas Rangers and former President Bill Clinton in Arkansas.

Since 1989, he has helped 43 players go into professional baseball and seen hundreds and hundreds go on to have great collegiate careers.

Preston Gross, President of Web Site Developement and Missouri/Illinois Coodinator for PRO-DAY Baseball.

He is a four-time ALL-SLIAC at Webster University in St.Louis (MO) where he hit .361 for his career. Gross has been in baseball his entire life, the son of former major league scout John Gross.

He received his bachelors degree in business from Webster University in St. Louis where Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi presented the diplomas.

A graduate of North County High School, Preston led NCHS to the Missouri State High School Championship.

A switch-hitting infield/outfielder, Preston led his summer team to back-to-back-to-back Missouri Senior Babe Ruth State Championships and Midwest Plains Regional Titles. His teams have played in the Senior Babe Ruth World Series in Stamford, Connecticut (2002),Weimer, Texas (2003) and placed 3rd in Newark, Ohio (2004).

Bob Parsons, a former professional player in the Pittsburgh Pirates Organization is the "Southwest Coordinator" for PRO-DAY Baseball.

He plays a very important role at all of the events that PRO-DAY has throughout the year.

A 1978 graduate of David Lipscomb College in Nashville, TN. He was an All-American second baseman and helped lead the school to the 1977 NAIA National Championship. In 2002, Bob was inducted into the Lipscomb Athletic Hall of Fame.

Many years in the business community, Bob has stepped back into the baseball world by working with PRO-DAY Baseball and teaching private lessons.

Allen Swindle of Tallahassee (FL) works with PRO-DAY as a pitching/hitting instructor along with his duties as Florida Coordinator.

A left-handed pitching standout at Florida State University went on to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds.

During his nearly five years in the Reds Organization, he accumulated many saves during his stops at Billings, Montana (Rookie Ball), Tampa, Florida (Class A), Waterbury, Connecticut (Class AA) and Indianapolis, Indiana (Class AAA).

Swindle's teammates consisted of: Tom Browning,Tracy Jones, Paul O'Neal, Dave Miley and Kal Daniels to name a few.

For the last 18 years, Allen has been one of the lead pitching/hitting instructors at Mike Martin's Florida State University Baseball Summer Camps.

He has worked with players like: Alex Rodriquez, Dean Palmer, Chipper Jones and Reggie Jefferson.

Allen has coached on the college level at North Florida Junior College and also on the high school level.

David Winningham, of Tuscaloosa (AL) is the Alabama Coordinator for PRO-DAY Baseball.

He travels to many of the PRO-DAY events across the country and evalautes talent at these Showcases.

David also works with pitchers and talks to players and families about the requirements to get into different colleges.

Winningham served as the pitching coach and recruiter at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa.

He was a two-year letterman at Wallace-Selma JC and also at the University of Montavello.

David brings many talents to PRO-DAY and is well respected throughout baseball.

Danny Martin, Director of Stadium Operations at the Orange Beach Sports/Plex and the Home of the PRO-DAY “Best of the Best” Showcase has been around baseball since he can remember.

He is the son of Johnny Martin who played in the St. Louis Cardinals Organization back in the late 1920’s. Danny is also the grandson of John C. Wilkins, who was the original owner of the Mobile Bears that were affiliated at that time with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Since Danny’s arrival in 1994 to the Orange Beach’s Parks and Recreation Staff, he has overseen its’ baseball field improvements go from only two youth fields and one softball field to an remarkable nine baseball/softball fields at the Sports/Plex.

Martin works closely with Preston Pooser, the director of Parks and Recreation in Orange Beach, and the two have a staff that is second to none in having the fields looking magnificent in hosting events at the Complex. They also play a huge part in making the “Best of the Best’ Dinner Banquet a big event each fall.

Carlos James, scouts professionally for the Seattle Mariners and also helps out at several of the PRO-DAY events during the year.

James was drafted out of high school by the Oakland Athletics. He turned down a professional contract to attend Seminole Junior College and later the University of Arkansas.

He would later sign a contract with the Pine Bluff Locomotives, A Class Minor League Club in the "Big South League" of professional baseball.

Carlos serves as a hitting coach at the PRO-DAY events.

Bubber Birdsong, is the Georgia Coordinator for PRO-DAY Baseball.

He just finished his first-year of coaching professional baseball for the South Georgia Peanuts, under manager Wally Backman, who was the second-baseman on the 1986 World Champion New York Mets.

Birdsong is a regular at the Florida State University Advance Baseball Camps each summer in Tallahassee.

He has worked with many professional baseball players over the years and is very knowledgeable on the game.

At the Showcases, Bubber can be found on the mound throwing BP, players do not need to take, because he is MONEY.

Matt Robinson, is the Hitting/Infield Instructor for PRO-DAY Baseball.

A native of Tallahasee (FL), Robinson had a standout baseball career at Florida State University after transferring from Wallace State Community College while leading them to a state title.

At FSU, Matt led the Semionoles to back-to-back 50-plus win seasons in 1982-83. The 1982 team ran up against Future Hall-of-Famer Roger Clemens and the Texas Longhorns, before falling at the Austin (TX) Regional.

In 1983, Florida State fell to Alabama, who were led by Dave Maggadan. The Crimson Tide then would run up against Clemens and the Longhorns this time around before dropping a 4-3 decision in the National Championship game in Omaha, Nebraska.

After his playing days at FSU, Robinson Coached in the Florida Sunshine State Games where he led his team to the Gold Medal. He also has many years experience as a high school coach.

For the past 20 years, Matt has been the lead instructor at the Florida State University Advance Baseball Camps.