Dennis Millard saw that side of Allen, too. Millard, a Philadelphia native, was a 13-year-old kid who had fallen in with a bad crowd when he first wandered into Connie Mack Stadium and watched Allen take batting practice before a game. He was awed by the then-rookie — even more so when, not long afterward, Allen noticed the teen was short on cash at a food cart and stepped up to pay for his hot dog and soda.
"Chris Young's background and experiences will be a huge asset to our baseball operations group," Daniels said. "He is a very well-regarded executive in our game. Chris' 13-year MLB career, including two seasons with the Rangers, gives him a perspective that is unique in baseball management."
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Gasol has also wondered whether he would enjoy playing in any sort of bubble environment that would take him away from his wife and their daughter, Elisabet Gianna Gasol, whose middle name Gasol and McDonnell chose as a tribute to Bryant and his late 13-year-old daughter, Gianna.
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But general managers are different. They're changed when it's apparent something must be done and something can be done -- which, these days, usually means tearing everything down, getting the team to be as bad as possible and then rebuilding. New GMs generally come with five-year leashes and five-year plans, and that plan is both demanding and forgiving: They don't have to build five good teams, just one -- the one that's playing at the end of the rebuild.
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Kaegel, 81, wrote for the Granite City Press-Record in Illinois in 1964 and spent 12 years covering the Cardinals for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and more than two decades covering the Royals for The Kansas City Star. He edited The Sporting News from 1979 to 1985 and spent more than two decades covering the Royals for MLB.com. He covered all 162 games in 2011, four years after a liver transplant.
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“In any other city, people who hit other people with baseball bats are ranked near criminals,” the Bulletin’s Frank Bilovsky wrote a few years after the fight. “In Philadelphia, Thomas was a hero.” Allen didn’t get any sympathy from sportswriters at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, all of whom were white men, says Mitch Nathanson, author of God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen. “There was nobody on either of those papers who was willing to see things differently,” he told The Undefeated.
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