Dec 23, 2024
Anthony Barone
From the dusty baseball diamonds of Jamestown to the well-appointed dugouts in the cities of the American Association of Professional Independent Baseball, this 2025 Chautauqua Sports Hall of Fame inductee has parlayed his love of the game into managerial success wherever he has been.
Anthony Barone first fell in love with baseball playing in the youth leagues in Jamestown. The 1997 graduate of Jamestown High School played two varsity sports: baseball and basketball. Hitting .350, he was named First-Team All-ECIC shortstop and a Post-Journal All-Star. He received the Jeff Nelson Memorial Award in basketball.
The next stop on his journey was Jamestown Community College where he again played both baseball and basketball. A team captain, Barone batted .350 and collected over 100 hits. He participated in the NJCAA Tournament with the Jayhawk basketball team. In 2000, he was named as one of JCC’s “50 Greatest Athletes of All-Time.”
Felician College in Lodi, New Jersey, was Barone’s destination for his final two years of college ball. A two-time team captain, he had a .352 career batting average, struck out just 12 times in 261 at-bats and was an Academic All-American.
Anthony returned to his alma mater, Jamestown CC, in 2001, as the assistant coach and made an NJCAA World Series appearance in 2004.
Barone was promoted to head coach at Jamestown CC in 2005, a position he held until 2012. During his tenure as the leader of the Jayhawks, his teams won 207 games and qualified for five consecutive NJCAA Regional berths. He was named Region 3 Coach of the Year in 2008.
Barone next headed west to NCAA Division I Cal State Bakersfield as an assistant coach in 2012-13, working with pitchers and catchers. That summer, he returned to Western New York to manage the Wellsville Nitros of the New York Collegiate Baseball League.
The Jamestown Jammers of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League hired its native son to manage the team from 2015-18. Barone took the Jammers to the playoffs in three years, to the championship series twice and to the PGCBL title in 2018. He was a two-time Manager of the Year.
The ownership group of the Jammers, which also owned the Milwaukee Milkman of the American Association of Professional Independent Baseball, signed Anthony as their hitting/bench coach for the 2019 season, and made him the manager the following season.
His responsibilities include player procurement, roster construction, salary cap configuration and on-field team strategy.
In his rookie year, Barone led the Milkmen to the American Association championship. He followed that up with playoff berths in 2021 and 2022 and the Eastern Division title in 2023.
His career record with Milwaukee is currently 251-209. Twenty-five of his players have had their contracts purchased by Major League Baseball teams.
Additionally, Barone has coached internationally with Merida, Mexico in the World Baseball Softball Confederation and in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with Baseball United.
Barone lives in Milwaukee during baseball season and in Jamestown during the offseason.
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