Tom Gamboa: My Life in Baseball
- ISBN-10
- 1476628718
- ISBN-13
- 9781476628714
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-11-28
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Authors
- David Russell, Tom Gamboa
Description
Tom Gamboa played baseball professionally, coached, scouted, managed in the minors and in Puerto Rico and coached in the majors with the Cubs and Royals. Scouring the country for talent, he discovered Jesse Orosco and helped develop Doug Glanville and Jose Hernandez in Puerto Rico and in the Cubs organization. Before Jim “The Rookie” Morris made it to the majors, Gamboa coached him on a title team in the Brewers organization. Sammy Sosa promised him a fist-bump for each home run Sosa hit—Tom didn’t suspect he was due 60 of them over each of the next two seasons. With a lot of humor, Gamboa takes his readers well inside the dugouts and clubhouses.
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