Coach Stan Friedmann


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Program Partners

Businesses

  • Capital One Bank (Virginia)

  • Chelsea Piers Day Camp (New York, NY)

  • Nationals Park (Washington DC)

  • Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York, NY)

  • Mount Tom Day Camp (Pelham, NY)

Not For Profit Organizations

  • The Jewish Museum (New York, NY)

  • Higher Achievement (Baltimore, MD)

  • Demarest Public Library (Demarest, NJ)

  • National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, NY)

  • The Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center (Montclair, NJ)

  • Manhattan Children’s Museum (New York, NY)

  • Dobbs Ferry Little League (Dobbs Ferry, NY)

  • Birch Family Camp (New York, NY)

  • Woodlands Community Temple (Greenburgh, NY)

  • John Jermaine Library (Sag Harbor, NY)

  • Hudson Valley Writers Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY)

Schools

  • Hutchinson Elementary School (Pelham, NY)

  • The William Ward Elementary School (New Rochelle, NY)

  • Murray Avenue Elementary School (Larchmont, NY)

  • Academy of St. Therese of Lisieux (Cresskill, NJ)

  • P.S. 24 (Bronx, NY)

  • Saints John & Paul School (Larchmont, NY)

  • Greenville School (Edgemont, NY)

  • Glenville School (Greenwich, CT)

  • Springhurst School (Dobbs Ferry, NY)

  • P.S. 95 (Bronx, NY)

  • Old Greenwich School (Old Greenwich, CT)

  • Pennington Grimes School (Mount Vernon, NY)

  • Albert Leonard Middle School (New Rochelle, NY)

Coach Stan was born and raised in New York City. He began teaching Social Studies at John F Kennedy High School 1974. He also directed the several after school programs for children and teens, where his focus was developing and managing entertaining sports and arts programs.

Later in his career he began working with older adults leading him to a position developing and directing the STAY WELL health promotion program for the New York City Department For The Aging.

In the 1990’s he directed a residential family camp for New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. This in turn led him to return to the camp he attended for many years as a child....

The Mount Tom Day Camp in New Rochelle in Westchester County where he served as director for 18 years.

Stan and his friends Mike Levine and Terry Egan wrote two acclaimed childrens’ baseball story books ( THE MACMILLAN BOOK OF BASEBALL STORIES and THE GOOD GUYS OF BASEBALL) both published by Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers.

He lives in Bergen County with his wife. They have five adult children and six amazing grandchildren.  

 
 
The authors of the MACMIlLLAN BOOK OF BASEBALL STORIES and THE GOOD GUYS OF BASEBALL.(From L to R: Terry Egan, Stan Friedmann, and Mike Levine)

The authors of the MACMIlLLAN BOOK OF BASEBALL STORIES and THE GOOD GUYS OF BASEBALL.

(From L to R: Terry Egan, Stan Friedmann, and Mike Levine)

 
 
 

“Stan Friedmann hits it out of the park with the HOME RUN PROJECT and secures his slot as a front runner in the field of youth education.”

- Brian Smith, Senior Vice President, Corporate/Community Relations, New York Yankees