John Stratton enters his 30th season with the Brakettes. Since 1995 Stratton has served as manager of the ball club. In his 12 years at the helm, Stratton has piloted the Brakettes to a record of 634-89 and led them to four national championships. In the "off-season", John is the pitching coach for Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. At FAU, Stratton works for Joan Joyce, the former Brakettes pitcher and National ASA Hall of Famer.

A graduate of Stratford High School and the University of Bridgeport, Stratton retired as a physical education instructor in the New Canaan school system after 35 years. Regarded as one of the top pitching clinicians in the nation, he has been inducted into both the Connecticut ASA and Collegiate Halls of Fame, while his wife (Rosemary) "Mickey" was the first Brakettes player inducted into the National ASA Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1969. John and Mickey are the parents of one son, John Jr., who was an All-America baseball player at Jacksonville State (AL) and a former minor league catcher. Their daughter-in-law is former Brakettes catcher Keri (McCallum) Stratton, a former ASA National Team member.