5. Tom Eller: Baltimore Orioles Hitting Coach & winningest coach in program history at Harford CC - a podcast by Bobby Audley

Coach Tom Eller is currently a hitting coach with the Baltimore Orioles organization. For 12 seasons Tom Eller was the Head Baseball Coach for the Harford Community College Fighting Owls in Bel Air, Maryland.

Over his last 12 seasons at Harford Tom became the winningest coach in program history, with 433 wins. Coach Eller surpassed the 40-win mark in each of the last four seasons, with a 96-7-1 record in conference play during that time.

Since taking over the program in 2007, the Fighting Owls under Coach Eller won five Region XX championships and four regular season Maryland Junior College Conference titles. In the 2016-2017 season, the Fighting Owls earned 54 wins, a season record for the program, and made the school's first appearance in the NJCAA World Series.

Tom shares in this interview that his purpose was always to help players develop to their next level. During his tenure, Coach Eller helped eight players go from Junior College to Major League Baseball.

In this interview Tom shares how he built a culture of success from the ground up, he did not inherit it. He shares how by building relationships with his players and other coaches in baseball, he himself has ascended from the Junior College ranks to the MLB. And he shares the power of a growth mindset for succeeding at any level.

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