Thomari Story-Harden

Thomari Story-Harden is the CEO / Director of Team Avenue Baseball, a student/athlete baseball developmental program. Thomari is a scout for the Florida Marlins and has partnered with Major League Baseball to form the new Central Valley RBI program. Thomari is also a Mentor and Coach to the players of Worldwide Baseball Prospects recruitment planning program

A local standout at El Cerrito High, the 6 '7 - 270lb Story-Harden starred in football and baseball before getting drafted in the 8th Round of the 1998 Amatuer Draft by the LA Dodgers. He played with the LA Dodgers organization for 6 years. Thomari then made the move to the East Coast playing 3 years of Independent Baseball in which he made the Frontier League All Star Team in 2005.

Once his pro career ended, Thomari re-focused his commitment to giving back to the youth of the Central Valley (California) area by starting the Team Avenue Baseball Academy and Avenue Outreach, a non-profit baseball school. On top of tutoring players on the field, Story-Harden assisted in placing youth in college at all levels of play. His philosophy when working with young adults is to stress academics and family before athletics.

"I truly believe the statement made by Tommy Lasorda the, "The Road to Success comes through the Avenue of Hard work."

Story-Harden is the manager of the Goodwill Series SSK Team that travels to Australia. While in Australia he and other scouts are able to evaluate player talent over an extended period of time while providing hands on training to development talent.

Thomari has been able to learn form the guru of exposure tournaments, Mr. Bob Williams. As a former player of the Area Code games and Goodwill Series, Story-Harden was able to create his Avenue of Success. "It is now time to give back to the Central Valley and help lead our student-athletes down a path of their own."

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