The drive between Napoleon and Fort Wayne, Ind., is an hour of easy highway motoring. But Mike Nutter decided to take the long route — and is glad he did.
Nutter grew up in Napoleon before his parents moved to California before his freshman year of high school. But Nutter never forgot his roots, and his love of sports led him to enter the field of sports management.
That prompted him to attend Bowling Green State University, where he graduated with a degree in sports management and a minor in marketing. Meanwhile he spent his summers working in minor-league baseball: he worked first for the Kane County Cougars, a Low Single-A baseball team based about 30 miles west of Chicago in Geneva, Ill.