21. He is brash, cocky, paranoid, arrogant, controversial and amazingly candid, all the things old-line baseball men detest. 22. He is not only a good baseball man, but a good man, period. 23. He made normally cautious baseball men gush. 24. He is a great baseball man. 25. He was a baseball man. 26. He made us remember Lou Gehrig, another quintessential baseball man who supplied the game with some of its richest lore. 27. He won no pennants as a manager, but Rigney was a shrewd baseball man who knew just about everyone in the game. 28. He was seen as either a folksy genius, a true baseball man, or a complete dunderhead. 29. Hicks will have to look hard to find a better baseball man, but maybe this team does need a new perspective. 30. Hershiser is yet another good baseball man who knows plenty about pitching. |