Our Team
Meet the Legends On Deck Team
The voices and photographers behind the stories.
From baseball, football, basketball, to soccer, motorsports, combat sports and beyond, the Legends On Deck team is made up of passionate writers, broadcasters, photographers and content creators dedicated to bringing fans closer to the games they love.
Founder/Co-Owner/Podcast Co-Host
David Conde
David is the Founder and Co-Owner of Legends On Deck, LLC and Co-Host of the Legends On Deck Podcast. A lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, David has spent more than a decade covering the sports he loves.
From 2010 to 2014, David served as a Senior Editor for MetsMerized Online and Mets Minors, while also contributing to Hardball Chat. In June 2014, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by making his MLB debut as a credentialed writer covering the New York Mets at Citi Field.
Married for over 27 years and the proud father of two sons, David’s greatest joy has been coaching his boys and sharing his passion for sports. Today, he continues to cover athletes and teams across the sports world while connecting with fans through Legends On Deck and social media.
C0-Owner/Podcast Co-Host
Brian Koss
Brian is the Managing Editor at Legends on Deck and Co-Host on Legends On Deck Podcast. He’s been writing about baseball at LOD since 2017 and is a member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association. He’s lives in Horizon West, FL.
You can also reach him at brianmkoss@gmail.com
Associate Editor/Podcast Co-Host
Dylan Spaulding
Dylan was born in Tampa, FL, and is the Founder of The FLow Show, a podcast that covers all things baseball in FL. He also is a current Play-By-Play Announcer for PHSC Baseball and works for the Toronto/Dunedin Blue Jays as a Scoreboard and Music Operator for the team. His favorite teams he roots for are the Blue Jays, Phillies, and Rays and his favorite player is Vladmir Guerrero Jr.
Editors
Aaron Reale
Aaron is a Writer and communicator who has notably served on the communications team of the Westchester County Executive. Nicknamed “Mr. Baseball” in his youth, Aaron is a lifelong Yankee fan, Tino Martinez and Aaron Judge enthusiast, and a fierce defender of Craig Biggio’s Hall of Fame worthiness. When he is not writing, or doing baseball related activities, Aaron is an avid foodie and culinarian. His non-baseball writing can be found at the Reality Check substack.
Jeremy Cerone
Jeremy Cerone is a lifelong baseball fan. As a native Philadelphian, he was born and raised as a Phillies fan. He played second base as a kid, even before Chase Utley made it cool. Later, in college, he adopted the Yankees as his American League team. The Phillies remain securely as his first love in baseball. Sports journalism and commentary have fascinated him since childhood. If Mars fielded a baseball team and played the Atlanta Braves, Jeremy would openly cheer for the Martians.
Site Photographers
Wayne Riegel
Wayne is new to covering baseball but is a lifelong Cleveland Indians/Guardians fan.
Christopher Vargas
Chris has been a sports photographer for over four years. He has covered different sporting events such as Women’s Basketball with the Las Vegas Aces and Minor league Baseball with the Las Vegas Aviators. He has also covered motorsports races such as NASCAR, INDYCAR, IMSA and Open Wheel Showdown. He has had the privilege of covering many big events such as the NASCAR Championship weekend, Rolex 24 in Daytona, and the Long Beach Grand Prix. His main goal has been to tell the story from his perspective whether if its working alongside a team or telling the story about the whole event.
Contributing Writers
Jeffrey Francis
Jeffrey was born on April 29th, 1961, in Nassau, Bahamas to Rejoiner Ann Rolle and Jerome James Francis Etienne.
Married to Andrea G. Rolle-Francis, they have two daughters; Janae Latoya Francis, a graduate of Alleghany College of Maryland, and Jessica Lee Francis a graduate Potomac State College West Virginia University in Kyser West Virginia.
Jeffrey was coaching the sport of baseball from 1980 at the age of 18 years old because he loved the sport as a kid. He started listening to the game over the radio out of Miami Florida in the late 60s and in the early 70s started playing the game locally in various local leagues right up to the premier senior league; a league where all of the current Bahamian minor leaguers played.
In 1982, Jeffrey had an invite to a three day tryout with the New York Yankees in Hollywood Florida, which was an awesome experience that is lasting a life time memory for him.
Jeffrey has been following the Bahamian baseball players in the minor leagues since 1999 with Angelo Burrows, but found greater interest with the signing of Antoan Richardson in 2005. He also writes a year end review on their play on his Facebook page, Baseball Bahamas, and he has a website with the same name. He has a great following and would love to expose the baseball players to a bigger worldwide audience.
He has a good relationship with all the players because he personally coached most of them.
His favorite MLB Team is the Detroit Tigers from 1969.
George Koss
George is the son of Legends on Deck co-owner Brian Koss. He is 9 years old, loves playing baseball, collecting baseball cards and following the Atlanta Braves. He is also Bat Boy for the Winter Garden Squeeze. You can follow him on Instagram @kossball.
Jason “Jay” Lawrence
Jason “Jay” Lawrence is an author, sports entrepreneur, community advocate, and lifelong sports leader from Cape Coral, Florida. A quadriplegic since a 1996 automobile accident, Jay has spent nearly three decades turning adversity into purpose. Before his injury, he was the MVP of the 1994 Cape Coral Seahawks District Championship baseball team and was later inducted into the inaugural class of the Cape Coral High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Jay owned and operated the Florida Stingrays adult semi-professional football team for 15 years, building one of Florida’s most successful programs while making a lasting impact through charitable work supporting foster children, Toys for Tots, and underserved communities. He is also the author of Why Jesus? and In the Eye of Ian, sharing lessons of faith, perseverance, and leadership.
At Legends On Deck, Jay covers football, flag football, combat sports—including the UFC—and the business of sports, bringing decades of experience as an athlete, team owner, and sports entrepreneur.
Jim Marshall
Jim has been writing about sports for over 10 years. He started his sports career in radio, co-hosting and producing several sports-talk radio programs in Phoenix. He has covered local, college, and national sports, but specializes in MLB. His articles have appeared on several sports-reporting sites, including our own Last Word on Sports. Jim is also a member of the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America (IBWAA).
Andrew Reed
Andrew Reed explores sports, history, politics, and culture with thoughtful analysis from a historical lens. Support my work on Buy Me a Coffee. Tips help me keep writing.
Vincent Stoll
Vincent Stoll is a junior at West Virginia University studying Sports and Adventure Media. Her is an aspiring sports broadcaster, with hopes of one day being on ESPN or the Golf Channel. Before his senior year of high school, Vincent completed a month-long internship with WVRC Media (Morgantown WV) where he assisted in production of the morning news show, nightly sports show, and further developed his writing skills for broadcast scripts and sports articles. In addition to his internship, he has experience in doing play-by-play for the women’s basketball team at Florida Southwestern State College.
As a native of Southwest Florida, Vincent grew up 10 minutes away from the spring training facilities for the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins in Fort Myers. Personally, he excelled on the golf course, as he has been playing for the past 18 years.
