With the year coming to a close, I cannot help but think about a sport psychology pioneer that we lost in 2018. Dr. Ken Ravizza, Professor Emeritus at the California State University at Fullerton, passed away in July of 2018 at the age of 70. He left behind a tremendous legacy in the field of sport psychology, having perhaps done more than any other individual in bringing mental skills training to the highest reaches of professional sports in the United States. After first working with members of the men's and women's gymnastics teams at Cal State-Fullerton, he began a relationship with Fullerton baseball coach Augie Garrido that would result in tremendous success as a national power in the sport in the 1970's and 1980's. Ken's warm, down to earth, and highly skilled approach to working with athletes and teams led to more opportunities, and he would go on to work with numerous professional and college teams, including the California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels, Tampa Bay Rays, USC and Nebraska Football, and UCLA and Cal State-Long Beach baseball. Most famously, his relationship with current Chicago Cubs' manager Joe Maddon would lead to Ken being one of the architects of the mental skills program that produced the first World Series title in 108 years for the Cubs franchise.