Before Friday’s game with Boston, the Phillies had a memorial ceremony honoring the memory of former player and long-time coach John Vukovich who passed away Thursday after battling cancer. 

Living these past 8 years thousands of miles away from major league training camps, it would seem that no blogosphere eulogization of John Vukovich would be complete without reading Curt Schilling’s piece; “Rest in Peace, Vuk” which he posted to his new 38 Pitches blog on Friday.

Schill’s tribute to coach Vukovich gives great insight into major league player/coach relationships and into their special, long-running relationship which began when Schilling was traded to the Phillies and continued long after he was traded by the Phillies to Arizona.  It is a warm, inspirational, well-written piece well worth reading by true fans and by those aspiring to make the major leagues.

Add to:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. | del.icio.us | digg | Furl | Reddit | YahooMyWeb |

This entry was posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2007 at 3:43 pm and is filed under All Time Baseball Highlights
Real-Time Baseball News and Commentary
All Time Team Highlights
Untimely Events. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.