Built on Generations of Baseball.
There is a version of baseball that exists outside the box score.
It lives in the way a father adjusts his son’s grip without saying a word. In the smell of a leather glove left in a hot car. In the particular silence of a dugout before a game that matters. In the things a coach says once, quietly, that a player carries for the rest of his life.
This is the baseball Link Baseball was built to honor.
My father, Mike Link, taught me the game the way many baseball fathers do—not only through instruction, but through presence. He was there. Season after season, field after field, through the early mornings and the long drives home. He did not need to explain what baseball meant. He showed me.
But the game had been passed to him first.
My father played at USC under legendary Hall of Fame coach Rod Dedeaux, one of the most accomplished and influential coaches in college baseball history. In 1968, Mike helped USC win the College World Series and was named to All-Freshman team at USC. Those accomplishments became part of the baseball legacy he later passed down—not only through stories, but through the way he taught the game and lived its values.The teachings, standards, and respect for the game that Coach Dedeaux passed to his players became part of the baseball foundation my father later passed to me.
Mike and Tim Link — two generations connected by baseball.
My path to Arizona began at Aliso Niguel High School, where Coach Chapman gave me my first meaningful opportunity inside a baseball program. He taught me the importance of preparation, responsibility, and contributing to something larger than myself. His relationship with University of Arizona coach Jerry Stitt ultimately helped open the door for me to continue that journey in college.
I joined the University of Arizona program under Coach Stitt and, after his final season, continued as a student manager when Andy Lopez took over in the fall of 2001. Andy Lopez, another Hall of Fame college baseball coach.
Coach Lopez built his program around discipline, accountability, preparation, and an almost sacred respect for the game. Being inside that program—even in a supporting role—was an education in what baseball looks like when it is done right. When the details matter. When standards matter. When culture is the point.
I watched players become men. I watched a coach build something that outlasted any single season. I learned that the best baseball programs—like the best families—are defined not only by what they win, but by what they pass on.
My baseball education continued in 2005 with the Colorado Rockies. I began my Baseball Operations internship during Spring Training, remained with the organization through extended Spring Training and lasted until September. Professional baseball was a different world, but what struck me most was how much of it still came down to the same fundamentals: relationships, trust, preparation, attention to detail, and the quiet work that nobody sees. It was another reminder that the game is carried forward by people who care enough to give their time, knowledge, and lives to it.
My father passed away in February 2021.
In the months that followed, I kept returning to the same question:
What do you do with everything baseball gave you?
The lessons. The relationships. The standards. The way of seeing the world that the game instills in the people who grow up inside it.
Coach Dedeaux passed the game to my father. My father passed it to me. Coach Lopez strengthened and expanded what I had been taught. Over time, I came to understand that these lessons do not preserve themselves.
They require intention.
They require someone to decide that they are worth keeping—and worth passing forward.
That is why Link Baseball exists.
Our mission is to preserve classic baseball through authentic experiences, timeless teachings, and the relationships that connect one generation to the next.
We create premium apparel inspired by the game’s traditions and made to be worn wherever baseball takes you. We are preparing the custom gloves we hope to offer in the future, built with the same care and intention we bring to everything else. And we are building an archive of stories, teachings, memories, and artifacts that preserve the people and experiences that shaped the game.
None of it is incidental.
All of it is intentional.
The name Link Baseball is not simply a metaphor. It is a description.
A link is a connection between what came before and what comes next. Between a father and a son. Between a coach and a player. Between teammates, families, and lifelong friends. Between the game as it was taught and the game as it will be carried forward.
My father was that link for me.
Link Baseball is my way of honoring what he passed on, preserving the teachings that shaped our family, and making sure they reach the next generation.
If you grew up in this game—if someone handed it to you and you understood the weight of what you had been given—then you already know what this is.
We built Link Baseball for you.
And for everyone you will pass it on to.
Link Baseball.
Built on Generations of Baseball.