The Buck Showalter We Know Formed When No One Was Looking

 In the summer of 1985, Buck Showalter introduced himself to me as we stood on a dusty minor league infield. Within minutes, Showalter, the obscure rookie manager for the Yankees’ farm team in Oneonta, NY, laughed and asked me: “Did you hear that I’ve already been escorted to Cooperstown, home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, in uniform and at the front of a process of vehicles?”

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