Beyond that, he’s a baseball lifer cut from the same cloth as Red Adams, Monty Basgall, Carroll Beringer and Danny Ozark, the solid men with no or limited major league playing time who were the solid coaches for the Dodgers for so many years for Walt Alston and Tommy Lasorda. His story is unique because of his Euro assignments. “But it’s still baseball and the guys are starting to get it.” “There’s been some improvement,” he said.
This year, he’s manager-pitcher for Kotlarka in Prague in the Czech Extraliga. He helped the juniors finish second in the European Championships. In addition, he’s been pitching coach for the junior and senior national teams. Games are on the weekend.Īhearne has been a coach-player. A new Hall of Fame class will be inducted Friday evening at Ports O’ Call restaurant.Īnd about baseball in the Czech Republic? He took a break for a couple of days for his induction into the Harbor College Athletic Hall of Fame. “But I didn’t make it back.”Ī year ago, he was still pitching at the age of 41, bouncing back and forth from his place in Hermosa Beach to the Czech Republic. “When I got sent down, I thought, `Well, I’ll be back,”‘ he said. “I’ve never heard that line before or since,” he said.Ī sense of humor, along with the love for the game, helps when your MLB dream fades like the sunset. Kaat sees 82 and he says, `Well, you’re not going to get a ticket in a school zone throwing that hard.”‘ Greg Gumble says, `Well, Pat’s struck out five players.’ Jim Kaat said, `Let’s get the (radar gun) reading.’ I throw one, it’s strike one, and it says 82. “My mother broke out the video of the College World Series,” he said. You-don’t sinker and excellent command, which is why he was compared to Hershiser. He got it done with savvy, guile, a now-you-see-it-now. It is noteworthy that Ahearne never was a “Have Fastball Will Travel” pitcher. And before that, he was the star pitcher at St.
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He had three starts and an 11.70 earned-run average.īefore that, he was the star pitcher, compared to Orel Hershiser, on Pepperdine’s 1992 College World Series championship team.īefore that, he was the star pitcher on a Harbor College 1990 state community college championship team. The energy and excitement is the best I’ve seen, and I’ve pitched in the big leagues briefly.”īriefly in the majors was four games with the Detroit Tigers in 1995. “That’s just for crowd control because the people get so passionate and crazy. “I’ve warmed up before a game in Caracas where troops came out with guard dogs and stationed themselves all along the warning track from the dugout to the foul poles for the entire game,” he said. During his 20 years in the majors, Valo played in Brooklyn in 1957 and in Los Angeles in 1958.Īhearne’s view of baseball is decidedly international.
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