H ouston Astros manager Joe Espada brought University of Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson in to talk to more than 200 Astros’ employees about leadership this week. “He’s not just a basketball coach,” Espada tells PaperCity . “He’s a human leader.”

Espada and Sampson have become good friends who frequently text each other during each other’s seasons and when the third-year Astros manager was looking for someone to speak at an event he holds every offseason, he immediately thought of the college hoops legend with 808 wins and counting. So there is Kelvin Sampson on Tuesday afternoon, talking to the majority of the Astros’ organization at Daikin Park .

To Joe Espada, Sampson’s turned into a home run with numerous Astros personnel coming up to tell him how much they enjoyed it.

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