Quote:
|
Originally Posted by chefsos
Since we're in a baseball thread, you may just have to indulge me here. Or, skip this post, your choice.
Orioles' bullpen coach and former catcher Elrod Hendricks died yesterday. He would have been 65 today. He spent the better part of 37 seasons in an Orioles uniform, 12 as a player, and was simply a first class human being, coach and father figure, and a great baseball ambassador for the Orioles. RIP, Ellie.
(1970 World Series.)  |
I have his autograph on a baseball.
I lived in Rochester, NY, from 1980-83. The Orioles' AAA team was there for many, many years. Each year, the O's would come to town to play an exhibition with the Red Wings. Before one game, Hendricks was one of several O's to sign my baseball.
Cal Ripken Jr. was with the Red Wings at that time, and I was one person away from getting his autograph when he quit and went into the dugout.
