“Coach” is still swinging for the bleachers.These days, though, that entails Mike Atherton playing right field on a softball team in Maui while he oversees a coffee plantation, a popular Maui agri-tourism operation, and one of only two major community developments to get the blessing of county authorities in Hawaii to build homes and commercial.Atherton has been called “Coach” for years. It’s a nod to his forte as a playmaker on teams that he has assembled for everything from tearing down the shuttered Spreckels Sugar factory and converting it into an economic juggernaut that spurred 21st century job growth in Manteca, building a school and homes for coffee plantation workers in Nicaragua or converting an old 2,000-acre sugar cane plantation into small farms, an agri-tourism destination, and a new community.Atherton is the first to tell you the successes he has been involved with — everything from getting development rolling south of the 120 Bypass, Spreckels Park, the creation of bonus bucks in Manteca, laying the groundwork for Del Webb at Woodbridge and the Promenade Shops at Orchard Valley and even getting Great Wolf Resorts to take a look at Manteca — are team efforts. While he brings savvy, passion, and vision to the table his various partners in ventures ranging from Bill Filios, Al Boyce, Bing Kirk, and Toni Raymus among others bring equally important skill sets such as business acumen, attention to details, a love of their community, and a desire to do more than just build homes and business/industrial parks.