Tom Emanski

Thomas Jerome Emanski (born February 1948) is an American baseball coach and former Major League scout. He is best known for his coaching instructional videos, whose advertisements were ubiquitous on ESPN in the late 1990s.

Early life Emanski grew up in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre region of northeastern Pennsylvania. After high school, he moved to Florida, where he worked assembling mainframe computers for IBM while coaching youth baseball and football. His teams found success, winning back-to-back-to-back Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national youth championships in three divisions: 12 and under (1990), 13 and under/under '90 (1991), and 11 and under (1992). Emanski also coached the 1996 Junior Pan American team to two wins against Cuba and the gold medal.

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, Emanski worked as a scout for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Houston Astros. McGriff admitted in 2021 that had never seen the videos he endorsed. In 1997, Emanski struck a deal with ESPN to advertise his videos, with the network receiving as much as a third of each sale. A 2005 New York Times article suggested that New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez spend $29.95 and "buy the eminent baseball instructor Tom Emanski's DVD, Teaching the Mechanics of the Major League Swing II."

Videography Source: Mechanics of the Major League Swing Dynamic Practice Organization Defensive Drills Defensive Strategies 101 Mechanics of the Major League Catcher Mechanics of the Major League Pitcher Baseball Strength & Conditioning Major League Baserunner Professional Bunting Mechanics of the Major League Swing II