Back in 1980, an accountant from British Colombia had been bitten with the baseball bug, having spent time covering the sport and being a general manager of a Pioneer League team, but he was an accountant in 1980. He figured his best way back into baseball was to start a baseball publication. Noticing the lack of minor league coverage by The Sporting News, he would fill a niche not occupied by the market: minor league baseball, the draft, and college baseball.
He lived closed to Seattle, had a Mariners writer help set up a network of correspondents and six months later, All-America Baseball News was born.