JIM E. HORNUNG JR.
PRESIDENT
ELBERS LANDSCAPE INC.
Buffalo, New York
Eagerly focused on the diamond and its animated players – tracking their batting averages, RBIs, home runs – young Jim Hornung Jr. rarely missed a game at Sahlen Field. Among a crowd of more than 20,000 Buffalo Bison AAA baseball fans, the elementary-aged son of the ballpark’s head groundskeeper had a backstage pass in many ways. “I’d see 50, 60, 70 games a season and hang out on the field, watching batting practice and just being around the players,” says Hornung, president of the family business his parents, Jim Hornung Sr. and wife Beth Ann, purchased in 1980.