The Muskegon (Mich.) Lumberjacks’ Larry Gordon, a longtime hockey executive who once signed Wayne Gretzky, muttered about losing the Adams Cup to “a baseball guy who doesn’t even know how to skate.”
The description was fairly accurate then and now. Amicone, a former baseball player for Granger High School and the University of Utah, is the vice president/general manager of the Salt Lake Bees. Yet his sports management career started in hockey, with a college internship that turned into a nine-year stay with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles.
In his early 20s, Amicone made a lasting impression on his co-workers.