First Base Sports, Inc. is the worldwide leader in helping people understand sports through educational media. Founded in 1992, the company was the first to serve this important niche by publishing the highly acclaimed Spectator Guide Series of books on football, hockey, basketball and soccer. The company also offers a guide to help aspiring high school student athletes garner collegiate sports scholarships.

The company was founded in Manhattan Beach, California by two UCLA graduate students, P.J. Harari and Dave Ominsky, who met at the Anderson Graduate School of Management while pursuing their MBAs. It was while working as an attorney prior to enrolling in business school that Ms. Harari discovered the opportunity. Her clients often conducted business meetings at basketball games or hockey games and she spent her time bored or pretending to understand what was going on.

Harari went in search of a book of rules hoping to solve her dilemma. Surely the local library would have something, she thought, or perhaps a local bookstore. But she had no luck. She resorted to teaching herself football by watching games on television, weekend after weekend of sitting alone in her living room. Harari did the same with hockey and basketball. And as her expertise grew, she was visited by peers, male and female alike, who would close her office door and quietly confide that they knew nothing about sports and desperately needed or wanted to learn. These people needed more than the rules. They needed to become conversational about sports.

At business school, Harari met Dave Ominsky, a lifelong sports fanatic. As a youngster, Dave became a Philadelphia Phillies baseball geek, and after his father taught him how to take the subway to Veterans Stadium, he used it to attend dozens of games with his school buddies at the ripe old age of 12. After learning baseball in intricate detail, he began to learn about hockey, football and finally soccer, and was so proud of his new knowledge that he constantly tried to explain them to his mother and sister, who were not exactly big fans. So when Harari approached him at business school 15 years later with her idea to educate the masses about sports, Ominsky realized that they could start a successful company in a field he had enjoyed since childhood.

Thus, First Base Sports and the Spectator Guide Series were born.