In the Good, Old Summer Time

Hot Ideas From Team Mannatech’s Athletes

As the song said, “Summer time…when the livin’ is easy.” The livin’ may be easy, but don’t let that fool you—summer is the most active time of year for a number of Team Mannatech athletes. Let’s meet three of our boys of summer: The “national pastime” heats up every summer, and you can be sure former big-league pitcher Harry Muir will never be far from the diamond action. His lifelong love of baseball has taken him to three continents and two national championships. After several years in the Toronto Blue Jays organization, in 1995 Harry moved to France to play pro baseball for the Montpellier Barracudas. He went undefeated that year and was named the League’s “Import Pitcher of the Year.” Today, Harry happily coaches young pitchers for the London Majors of Canada’s Intercounty League. Although he’s a 10-year veteran of the U.S. Snowboarding Team that competed at the recent Winter Olympics, Anton Pogue’s high time comes annually when the temperature rises. He a veteran competitor in a number of summer sports, including surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding and trampoline. He’s also been featured in several Nike sporting goods commercials and was named a Chevy S-10 “Personality Athlete.” In 2004, at age 68 and after 45 years of racing power boats, Mario Maraldo won his highest honor yet—National Champion of the American Power Boat Association Limited Grand Prix Class, making him the oldest Grand Prix Class driver in the world. Still active on the racing circuit, Mario (whose boat proudly sports the Team Mannatech logo) has recovered from a number of potentially career-ending racing accidents. But does Mario plan to hang up his lifejacket anytime soon? No way!