The Hoptown Hoppers have named its head coach for the 2021 summer baseball season, tapping a Minnesota native to lead the team.
Brett Lindsey was introduced as the Hoppers’ ninth head coach Saturday afternoon in Hopkinsville. Lindsey is preparing for his first season as an assistant coach at Indiana University-Southeast in New Albany, Indiana. He previously coached at Broward College in Florida and the University of South Alabama.
Lindsey has summer league coaching experience with the Bismarck Larks of the Northwoods League in North Dakota
Lindsey hails from Eagan, Michigan, and played baseball in college at Dakota County Technical College and Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska where he was an NAIA scholar-athlete.
Gary Vaught was named to coach the Hoppers in 2020, but the season was canceled due to COVID-19. Hoppers General Manager Ted Jatczak said Vaught had his own ordeal with COVID-19 and has opted to manage Lake Erie College full-time in 2021.
Vaught joins Casey Dykes as Hopper head coaches who left before coaching a single game. Dykes resigned before the 2015 season after taking a full-time coaching position at VMI.
Jatczak said Lindsey was selected from an initial applicant pool of 26 that was narrowed down to eight.
The Hoptown Hoppers are a summer collegiate wooden bat league team that will begin its ninth season of play in May 2021.
