Former Phillies manager Danny Ozark piloted the team to 3 straight NL East division championships in 1976, 1977 and 1978 as well as compiling a 594-510 managerial record in seven seasons with the club from 1973 thru 1979.  Ozark passed away at 85 years old of an as yet undetermined cause.

His 1976 and 1977 teams each won 101 games, most in Phillies franchise history and he was credited with showing patience and guiding the growth of a core of young and maturing Phillies homgrown talent such as Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, Larry Bowa and Bob Boone as well as melding them with acquired talent such as Steve Carlton, Tug McGraw, Garry Maddox,  Bake McBride, Manny Trillo and Pete Rose. 

Inquirer staff writer Frank Fitzpatrick reports Mike Schmidt’s comments on Ozark’s passing,  how he came to become Phils manager and what he meant to the division-winning teams:

“I was saddened by the news,” said Schmidt. “He was a good friend, my first major league manager and played a major role in the early years my career, and was instrumental in building us into prominence in the mid-1970’s.”

Owner Bob Carpenter, impressed by his long association with the successful Dodgers, bucked public opinion in hiring the 49-year-old who never played a day in the major leagues. Philadelphia fans had been lobbying for a more familiar face, someone like Richie Ashburn or Jim Bunning.

The AP report on Ozark adds:

Catcher Bob Boone said Ozark was partly responsible for the Phillies’ eventual World Series win, even if he wasn’t in the dugout when they won it.

“He was the perfect manager for the Phillies in the 70s,” Boone said. “He had the patience of Job and helped all of us grow up as men and players.”

“Danny was a great human being,” said Phillies chairman Bill Giles. “He was first class and a fine gentleman who really cared deeply about his players and his friends.”

Ozark was fired late in the 1979 season as the Phillies stood at 65-67. They went on to finish 84-78 and rebounded under Dallas Green in 1980 to win the World Series.

“His patience with some of the Phillies’ young players in 1973-75, particularly with Mike Schmidt, really paid off as the Phillies got to the postseason in 1976, 1977, and 1978 and eventually won the World Series in 1980 after he left,” Giles said.

Ozark was named Associated Press Manager of the Year in 1976…

The Inquirer’s Fitzpatrick adds;

In writing about the Phillies’ growing unhappiness with their manager, Inquirer columnist Frank Dolson would later say that “in their view, Ozark obviously was someone who couldn’t lead a thirsty horse to water.”

As an injury-riddled 1979 season wore on, Mr. Ozark couldn’t even stick his head out of the Phils’ dugout without hearing the boos. Finally, on Aug. 31, he was fired and replaced by Dallas Green.

“If Danny Ozark had one fault,” said former Phils owner Ruly Carpenter, “it was that he was too nice. He was tremendously loyal to his players. There were just times when he should have been a hell of a lot tougher on those guys. . . . On the other hand he was a very tough person to put up with the things he did, the crap he took.”

In 1980, the club Mr. Ozark had nurtured throughout the previous decade, finally won the franchise’s first world championship.

Contacted at his Vero Beach home that night of Oct. 21, 1980, Mr. Ozark admitted that he and his wife, Ginny, had tears in their eyes.

“I wish I’d have been there to be a part of it,” he said. “Those players all were with me. We developed the club together. We suffered together.”

Wikipedia outlines Ozark’s career prior to becoming skipper of the Phillies:

A respected baseball man, Ozark was a minor league first baseman who spent his playing career in the labyrinthine Brooklyn Dodgers farm system. He batted and threw right-handed.

In 1956, Ozark became a manager with the Dodgers’ Class B Wichita Falls farm club (Big State League) and rose through their system in succeeding years all the way to the AAA level, winning a division championship with the 1963 Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League. In 1965, he came to the major leagues - and the Los Angeles Dodgers - as a coach for Walter Alston. Ozark served eight years (1965-72) on Alston’s staff until his hiring as manager by the last-place Phillies in October 1972.

Ozark is survived by his wife of 60 years, Ginny, two children and three grandchildren.

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Back in 1966, legendary singer and actor Frank Sinatra recorded his classic tune, “That’s Life”:

That’s life, that’s what all the people say.
You’re riding high in April,
Shot down in May
But I know I’m gonna change that tune,
When I’m back on top, back on top in June.

‘Old Blue Eyes’ and his classic must have occurred to Manny Ramirez and the L.A. Dodgers today after news broke of Ramirez’s 50 Game Suspension for use of a banned drug.

They were riding high, those Dodgers, undefeated in their first 13 home games from April through May 6th beginning the 2009 season, until the news hit today of Manny’s impending suspension.  And oh yes, unlike the Sinatra tune, Manny won’t be “back on top in June.”  As AP baseball writer Ronald Blum reports:

Barring any postponements he will be able to return to the Dodgers… for the July 3 game at San Diego.

No matter that the drugs in question were reported by Yahoo’s Tim Brown and Steve Henson [who cited two sources] to be allegedly LC HCG;

 ”commonly used… as fertility drugs… used to trigger testosterone production.” 

No matter that it wasn’t a steroid and it wasn’t HGH.  If reports are accurate, the drug WAS a substance listed on MLB’s banned substance list — that’s the point of Ramirez’s suspension. 

I try to keep this blog baseball purist and as far away from discussions of steroids and banned substances as possible.  But this case begs some serious questions of MLB’s ethicacy and veracity.  Yahoo’s Brown and Henson point out:

Two sources said the substance Ramirez tested positive for a gonadotropin. Major League baseball’s list of banned substances includes the gonadotropins LH and HCG…  Testosterone is depleted by steroid use, and low testosterone can cause erectile dysfunction. 

1/ Is the Brown and Henson report a hint as to possible steroid use by Ramirez which was not previously detected in tests?  Manny, himself is quoted in the Brown and Henson piece as noting;

“I’ve taken and passed about 15 drug tests over the past five seasons.”

Something seems amiss in that Henson and Brown also report:

Ramirez tested positive for the substance during spring training, then was administered a second test more recently, and it also was positive. Major League Baseball notified Ramirez of the second positive test after Wednesday night’s Dodgers victory over the Washington Nationals.

2/ How is it that Manny was given a second chance whereas in the case of others, such as lefthanded Phillies set-up man J.C. Romero who was similarly suspended for 50 games for use of an allegedly banned substance, there were apparently no reports of second chances?

3/ And how is it that the news of the failed drug test was only announced on the day after the Dodgers made the MLB record books for their season-starting home winning streak?

4/ Finally, considering that Manny is a co-leader of the Dodgers in home runs and leads the team in batting average, can one then assume that the Dodgers record winning string is somewhat tainted in the same way as there is talk of the homer records of Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, etc. being tainted via alleged steroid use?

It seems that Bud Selig and MLB may have quite a bit of explaining to do on this one!

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Sports announcer Harry Kalas, the pre-eminent voice of the Philadelphia Phillies over nearly 39 years, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack in the press box in Washington D.C. at age 73, a couple of hours before the Phils played the Washington Nationals’ in the latter’s home opener.

Wikipedia carries a comprehensive but changing page about Kalas from his early years with the Houston Astro’s (formerly the Colt 45s) through his career with the Phils which began in 1971.

Kalas ushered in the opening of the then new Veterans Stadium in 1971 and later teamed with former great Phils centerfielder Richie Ashburn in the announcing booth.  Together, they called many of the most treasured Phillies moments.

Kalas was at the broadcasting helm when the Phils acquired “Lefty” Steve Carlton in 1972 in trade for the talented Rick Wise and called the games of “Lefty’s” memorable 27-10 inaugural season with the Phils.

Kalas was famous for signature calls like;

• “Swing…and a long drive, watch that baby, outta here! Home run “

Or variations like;

• “Swing…and a long drive, can it be?  Can it be, outta here!”
• “Swing…and a long drive, its gotta chance!  Its gotta chance, outta here!”
• “Swing… that ball is well-struck!  Well-struck, watch that baby, outta here!”

or after an opponent struck out on a nasty, Carlton, Curt Schilling or Cole Hamels pitch;

• “Swing and a miss on a breaking ball.  Heeee struck ‘em out!”

AP Sports Writer Howard Fendrick reports on Kalas’ passing for Yahoo sports;

Kalas had surgery earlier this year for an undisclosed ailment that the team characterized as minor. He looked somewhat drawn last week as the Phillies opened the season at home.

Kalas is survived by his wife and three sons, including one—Todd—who is a broadcaster for the Tampa Bay Rays. Funeral arrangements were pending.

His family issued a statement saying they were “overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and affection from all of Harry’s fans and friends across America. Especially the Phillies fans whom he loved as much as the game of baseball itself.”

“He found the good in everybody, especially the players,” [former  pitcher Larry] Andersen said, tears streaming down his face. “He loved the players. He loved being around them.”
 
“We lost our voice today,” Phillies president David Montgomery said. “He has loved our game and made just a tremendous contribution to our sport and certainly to our organization.”

Kalas was on hand for all of the greatest Phillies moments over the past 39 years;  Carlton’s Multiple Cy Young awards, NL East Division titles in 1976, 77, 78, Mike Schmidt’s Hall of Fame Career — including some wild games against the Cubs at Wrigley Field with the wind blowing out, the Phillies’ first World Championship in 1980, their 1983 pennant, their 1993 pennant, Ryan Howard’s 58 homers in 2006, the NL East Division in 2007, the World Championship in 2008 and more.

In game 5 of the 2008 World Series, Kalas made this final call which signified a Phillies World Series Championship;

“One strike away; nothing-and-two, the count to Hinske. Fans on the their feet; rally towels are being waved. Brad Lidge stretches. The 0-2 pitch — swing and a miss, struck him out! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball!   Brad Lidge does it again, and stays perfect for the 2008 season! 48-for-48 in save opportunities, and watch the city celebrate! Don’t let the 48-hour wait diminish the euphoria of this moment, and the celebration. And it has been 28 years since the Phillies have enjoyed a World Championship…”

And, this season in his final broadcast in the Phillies win over the Colorado Rockies on April 12;

“Bouncing ball to Chase Utley, this should be the game, Chase throws him out and that will be it as the Phil’s win 2 out of 3 here at Coors Field, coming back to take this one by a score of 7 to 5.”

Harry Kalas, The voice of the Phillies, passes away at 73.

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I recall reading about the freakish trade of a minor leaguer for 10 bats when it occurred in May, 2008.  But I passed on it, although I don’t recall why — probably pre-occupation with the Phillies who were on their way to a  World Series title, or an unassisted triple-play or recalling history — Pete Rose’s tri-swipe of 2nd, 3rd and home.  Perhaps I just didn’t deem it blog-worthy.

But in retrospect, the tragic story of minor leaguer John C. Odom seems an ironic opposite book-end with an April, 2007 blog entry about the short-lived injury-ridden 6-out 3 at bat major league career of then-prospect slugger Ron Wright who left baseball and is now pursuing a career as a pharmacist.

AP baseball writer Ben Walker posts about Odom and the trade for 10 bats for Yahoo sports:

It became a big joke last May when word of the unusual swap jumped off the sports pages, and the former San Francisco Giants prospect went from pitcher to punch line.

“People are like, ‘I’d kill myself’ and stuff,” Odom said at the time, dismissing any such notion.

Three weeks after the trade, he abruptly left the team.

Six months after the trade, he was dead.

The medical examiner said Odom’s death in Georgia on Nov. 5 at age 26 was an accidental overdose from heroin, methamphetamine, the stimulant benzylpiperazine and alcohol.

Odom’s death had drawn little notice by the start of spring training this year. Now, former teammates, managers and club officials keep asking a question for which there is no satisfying answer.

“I guarantee this trade thing really bothered him. That really worried me,” said Dan Shwam, who managed Odom last year on the Laredo Broncos of the United League. “I really believe, knowing his background, that this drove him back to the bottle, that it put him on the road to drugs again.”

Shwam added: “There were some demons chasing him, they’d been after him for a long time. But there’s no way to really know whether the trade did it, is there?”

At first, Odom seemed to handle it well. He gladly agreed to interviews. He kidded about the kooky deal and said it would make a better story if he reached the majors someday.

Odom certainly wasn’t on the path to the big leagues when the Calgary Vipers of the independent Golden Baseball League made him an instant curiosity.

By his own account, the 6-foot-2 Odom was a “lost youth” who got tossed off his Roswell, Ga., high school team. A few years later, he showed up in Florida at Tallahassee Community College, a small-school baseball powerhouse.

“This guy comes into my office, hair hanging below his shoulders, earrings, and asks if he could use my field,” TCC coach Mike McLeod recalled.

With a sharp curveball, 90 mph fastball and good changeup, Odom made the team as a walk-on. He pitched well, going 9-3 in 2003-04.

Odom later… signed with the Giants, who had drafted him in the 44th round in 2003.

He had a bumpy four years in the Giants’ system, none above Class A. He went 9-8 in 38 games, missed most of one season because of a wrecked right elbow and lost another year to a dislocated left shoulder.

The Giants released Odom in spring training last year. Calgary offered a job, but because of a 1999 conviction for aggravated assault when Odom was a minor, he couldn’t get into Canada. On May 20, the team made the famous trade.

Calgary team president Peter Young and Laredo general manager Jose Melendez nearly traded him for a slugger, but it fell apart. Melendez proposed buying Odom’s contract for $1,000. Young rejected that, saying the Vipers didn’t do cash deals because they made the team look financially unstable.

Bats, though, the Vipers could use. At $665 for 10 bats—made by Prairie Sticks, double-dipped black, 34 inches long, model C243, Laredo agreed to the unusual deal.

“This was not done as a publicity stunt,” said Young, now the Vipers’ director of baseball operations. “I talked to John several times and told him this wasn’t done to embarrass him.”

“It really is sad,” Giants ace Tim Lincecum, who used to bunk on Odom’s couch in Class A, said about the deal last weekend.

Eager to play somewhere, Odom packed up after the trade and drove 30 hours, nearly 2,000 miles, to Laredo. When he arrived in Texas, everyone wanted to ask him about the bats.

At first, Odom lapped up the publicity. “Batman survives,” he said. His first outing went OK, too.

Then came a particularly bad night in Amarillo.

Baseball isn’t always the warm and fuzzy game of “Bull Durham” and “Field of Dreams.” It can also be cruel and unforgiving.

On June 5 in Amarillo, the “Batman” theme played while Odom warmed up for Laredo, and he tipped his cap to the sound booth. But he was battered for eight runs in 3 1-3 innings and mercilessly taunted by the crowd. Shwam went to the mound.

“The chants, the catcalls, they were terrible. I had to get him out of there for his own good. He was falling apart, right in front of our eyes,” Shwam said.

When Shwam noticed Odom becoming more withdrawn, he called a team meeting. The message: No more talking about the trade or the bats by anyone.

Odom pitched five good innings at San Angelo on June 10 in what turned out to be his third and last start. On the bus after the game, Odom said he needed to speak with Shwam the next day.

“He came in and said, ‘Skip, I’m going home. I just can’t take it. I’ve got some things to take care of. I’ve got to get my life straightened out,”’ Shwam recalled.

And with that, Odom disappeared.

Several baseball people tried calling him, but got no answer.

In January, Shwam called Odom’s cell phone, seeing if he wanted to pitch this year for a team in Alexandria, La., but got only his voice mail. A few weeks later, Shwam learned that Odom was dead.

“I was shocked,” he said. “Unfortunately, it doesn’t surprise me.”

Details of his final days are elusive. His death was obscure. There is no record on where he was living, no explanation of how his body wound up at a hospital, no police report, no public record of where he is buried. Numerous telephone messages left for his family and friends were not returned.

The actual 10 bats that Odom got traded for, they’re easy to discover. An Internet search shows a picture of them, stamped with “John Odom Trade Bat.”

They were never used.

The Vipers planned to auction them for charity. When Ripley’s Believe it or Not! heard about the trade, it offered $10,000 to the team’s children’s charity.

So the bats are now stored away at a warehouse in Orlando, Fla.

“We’re still hoping to create an exhibit around them,” said Tim O’Brien of Ripley’s. “It would still attract a lot of interest.”

Knowing Odom’s proclivity for depression, its a wonderment to me as to why neither Dan Shwam, his last manager who expressed concern about him after “the trade”, nor Lincecum, now a certified MLB star who spent bunked at his residence , nor anyone else in the Giants organization thought to connect this kid up with a mentor to help him get his life together.  Everyone now expressing sadness upon hearing about Odom’s death seem to have been too busy, too indifferent too pre-occupied to help when Odom really needed. 

This tragedy brings renewed appreciation of other coaches, such as the late John Vukovich, who passed away of cancer in March, 2007 and who was seen as a long-time father-figure to players such as future Hall of Famer  Curt Schilling. 

Does it even occur to MLB, to it’s President, to team executives, to minor league managers, coaches and other officials who are soo caught up and pre-occupied with steroids and illegal substances, that there are players in need of mentoring?  Personally, I find that 10 bat trade and resultant indifference to Odom on the part of MLB, which led to his death by overdose, an outrage.

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Former Cleveland Indians fastballing lefthander Herb Score passed away on Tuesday morning at age 75 at his home in Rocky River, Ohio according to an Indians team statement.  He died after a lengthy illness.

MLB.com’s Justice B. Hill reports;

Score had been in poor health since his car pulled in front of a tractor-trailer on Oct. 8, 1998, in New Philadelphia, Ohio, a town about 80 miles south of Cleveland. Score teetered between life and death at Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio, with injuries to his hip, head and pelvis.

Even after he left Aultman Hospital for home, Score wasn’t the Herb Score that friends and baseball fans had come to know.

The team statement continued;

“Today is a sad day for the Cleveland Indians family and for Cleveland Indians fans everywhere. We have lost one of the greatest men in the history of our franchise. Generations of Indians fans owe their love of the Tribe to Herb Score, who was a powerful pitcher and legendary broadcaster. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nancy and the Family.”

Score took the Cleveland Indians and Major League baseball by storm in 1955 compiling a 16-10 record and winning AL rookie of the year honors while striking out an AL leading and then-MLB rookie record 245 in 227 1/3 innings with a 2.85 ERA a with a blazing fastball and a bottom-dropping curve. He went on to post a 20-9 mark in 1956 striking out a league-leading 263 in 249 1/3 innings with a 2.53 ERA.  He completed 27 games and pitched 7 shutouts during the 2 year span. 

As the 1957 season opened, Score had all of the earmarks of THE next great pitching star and ace of a new generation of Indian pitchers which would include Gary Bell, Mudcat Grant, and Jim Perry.

But then, on May 7th as recounted in an earlier blog post on pitcher’s vulnerability, Score was felled by line-drive off of the bat of Yankees’ shortstop Gil  McDougald suffering eye and face injuries from which he recovered. Although he back to pitch in the 1958 season and pitched sporadically through 1962, his career and the potential greatness foreseen was over.  Score was never the same.  He altered his pitching motion, always fearing another such line-drive injury, but the change in motion reduced his effectiveness.

Score retired in 1962 with a career 55-46 record and 837 strikeouts in 858 1/3 innings.  

 AP Sports Writer Tom Withers notes for Yahoo sports;

Not long after ending his playing career, Score began a second one in baseball when he joined the Indians’ TV broadcast team in 1964. He moved to radio in 1968.

A native of Rosedale, N.Y., his deep voice and thick New York accent became a fixture for generations of Indians fans. He retired from broadcasting after the 1997 season, his 34th in the booth.

While the Indians languished for decades during Score’s broadcasting tenure, his last game ended up being Game 7 of the 1997 World Series.  As it turned out, the Indians blew a ninth-inning lead and lost it in the 11th, missing a chance to end a World Series title drought dating back to 1948.

As always, Score’s last call was simple, accurate and to the point.

“Line drive, base hit, the game is over,” Score said, summing up Edgar Renteria’s series-winning hit off Charles Nagy.

Score’s personal send-off was brief, too.

“And so that is the season for 1997,” he said. “And there’s very little else we can say except to tell you it’s been a pleasure. I would like to thank all the fans for their kindness over the years. You’ve been very good to me. And we hope that whoever sits in this chair next, you’ll be as kind to them as you have been to me.”

Score’s subdued style was perfect for fans who couldn’t afford to take their pitiful Indians too seriously.

Score is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Nancy, and three children.

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Colorful former Brooklyn Dodgers lefthanded pitching great from the late 1940’s to mid-1950’s, Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe passed away on Sunday in West Plains, Mo. in his 90’s after a long illness.

Nicknamed “Preacher” because, as AP Baseball Writer Ben Walker puts it;

According to one family story, he dubbed himself “Preacher” at a young age because he admired a local preacher

but as fellow hurler Ralph Branca related to AP’s Walker;

“We all called him ‘Preacher’ because he could talk your ear off,” he said. “If there was no one around, he would talk to the wall,”

how he got his nickname and how many pitches he utilized and whether or not he actually threw a spitter were as big a mystery as was his true age.   His website gives his birthdate as February 26, 1916 whereas Baseball Library, Baseball Almanac and Wikipedia all list the same date of birth, but a year earlier.

Branca also told Walker;

“He threw two pitches, a slider and his ‘Beech-Nut slider.’ Beech-Nut was a gum we all chewed back then. He knew how to use that juice to get that ball all wet.”

After retiring, Roe admitted in a Sports Illustrated story that he had benefited for years by throwing a spitball.  

Walker notes Roe’s role in the famous Boys of Summer Dodgers era;

Roe went 127-84 in a 12-year career with the Dodgers, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. But it was in Brooklyn, where he played alongside the likes of Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Ralph Branca and others at Ebbets Field, where he enjoyed his greatest success and acclaim.

Though those Dodgers teams of the 1940s and 1950s won only one World Series — Roe was part of three teams that lost to the New York Yankees—they became a beloved part of the borough. And Roe, a skinny left-hander and mathematics teacher from a small town in Arkansas, was among the fan favorites in the big city.

Roe led the NL in strikeouts in 1945 with Pittsburgh. He posted his best season in 1951, going 22-3 for the  Dodgers—he did not, however, start in the three-game pennant playoff with the New York Giants, capped by Bobby Thomson’s famous home run.

Roe helped put the Dodgers into the World Series in 1949,  1952 and 1953. He started a game in each of those matchups with the Yankees, going 2-1 and completing all three outings.

Known for his sharp control, Roe finished with a career 3.43 ERA and pitched 101 complete games.

Roe made his big league debut with St. Louis in 1938 and pitched only once for the Cardinals. He spent the next several years in the minors and returned to the majors with  Pittsburgh in 1944.

Roe’s path stalled for a few years following a brawl back home in Arkansas. He was coaching a girls’ high school basketball team, got into a dispute with a referee and, according to local stories, wound up with a fractured skull.

“He wouldn’t fly with us,” Branca said. “It made his head hurt. He always took the train.”

The Pirates traded Roe, infielder Billy Cox and reserve Gene Mauch to Brooklyn for former star outfielder Dixie Walker and two other players after the 1947 season.

Roe retired after going 3-4 in 1954 and later owned a grocery store in West Plains. He often attended the Dodgers’ adult baseball camps at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Fla.

A piece in communities.canada.com cited a quote from Author Roger Kahn’s ‘The Boys of Summer” gaving details of how Roe allegedly loaded up;

To ‘load one,’ Roe wiped his large left hand across his brow and surreptiously spat on the meaty part of the thumb. The broad base of the hand was his shield. Then, pretending to hitch his belt, he transferred moisture to his index and middle fingers. Finally, he gripped the ball on a smooth spot — away from the seams — and threw. The pitch consistently broke down.

Occasionally a suspicious home plate umpire would demand to inspect the ball. The michevious Roe would then roll the ball along the grass to home plate. He was never caught.

In later years, Roe claimed he threw far fewer of the pitches than opponents suspected. But his reputation was enough to make hitters uncomfortable.

Preacher Roe will be missed by former Brooklyn Dodger fans.

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