The
sports world lost a legend yesterday with the passing of Don Zimmer at the age
of 83 years old. Zim was involved in baseball his entire life, signing a minor
league contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 at the age of 18 years old.
He
played for 11 years with the Dodgers (twice), Mets, Reds and Senators plus
another season in the NPB with the Toei Flyers. He has coached or managed with
an additional 9 teams for another 42 years. Over the combined 66 years he won 2
World Series as a player (both with the Dodgers) and another 4 World Series as
a coach or manager (All with the Yankees).
I
will always remember Zim for his time with the Cubs because at the time I was
living here in Arizona and we didn’t have the Diamondbacks yet, my favorite team
the Mariners were not shown on television to often so I watched the Cubs on WGN
and the Braves on TBS for my baseball fix. Another memory is the 2003 ALCS
between the Yankees and Red Sox and the brawl when Pedro Martinez threw Zimmer
to the ground (despicable).
Zimmer
was just an average player and an average manager/coach but no matter what he was
always himself, he was always Zim and for that he moves on from this world to
the world of baseball lore.
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