Ryne Sandberg, at Wrigley’s Doorstep

“One thing I’ve really learned from him is a work ethic, and playing the game harder,Wholesale Houston Astros Hats,1,” said outfielder Jim Adduci, who has played for Sandberg at three levels. “He preaches that a lot – advancing,1 to the field and alive,1 hard and accepting,1 ready to play the game. And then it’s kind of whatever happens in that game – as long as you’re playing as hard as you can – happens. That’s his aesthetics,1.”
“He tells me he’s ready,” said Rick Sutcliffe, the ESPN analyst who won the N.L. Cy Young Award for the Cubs in ’84. “And you apperceive,1 what? He’s told me some things in the accomplished,1, and every one of them has been true.”
“I’m trying to be a manager; I’m not there to be a celebrity softball player,” Sandberg said last week in Iowa, when I mentioned the softball invitation. “I don’t anticipate,1 that would be the right affair,1 to do. I had no interest in that. I was where I wanted to be, in the dugout, helping run the game and helping coach the players. That’s what I’m doing now. I’m not playing softball.”
Sandberg is austere,1 about his new profession, in a way few players of his caliber have ever been. He has managed in the minors for four seasons, starting with Class A Peoria in 2007. With no managerial experience before then, Sandberg said, it alone,1 made sense to plan,1 his way up – Hall of Famer or not.
Sandberg was quiet as a amateur,1, difficult for sportswriters to find for a adduce,1. In some means,1, he was the Chase Utley of his day: acute,1 and intense, with no room in his schedule for accidental,1 alternation,1.
What struck me about Sandberg, from that affair,1 in Anaheim, is what happened after the Futures Game. Once the field was cleared, baseball set up a softball field for the annual celebrity game. Mixed {among|a part of,1} MC Hammer and Andy Richter were several Hall of Famers: Paul Molitor, Dave Winfield, Rickey Henderson and added,1. They were guys from Sandberg’s era, and they were paid to participate.
“I might not have taken the job in Peoria if I anticipation,1 I was entitled to anything,” Sandberg said. “I wouldn’t be this far. That wasn’t the case at all. I felt like there was something,1 to prove to myself, and there was something,1 to prove to baseball.”
Sandberg was asked to play,1, too. It was a chance to collect a few bucks and horse about,1 with his Cooperstown peers after his workday was done. No problem, right?
Sandberg, the manager of the Class AAA Iowa Cubs, was a coach for the World Team in the Futures Game the Sunday before the All-Star Game. I spotted him there, hitting grounders to prospects, and asked if I could visit him in Iowa for a contour,1. Sandberg said I could, and this commodity,1 is the aftereffect,1.
“Don’t underestimate him,” Dernier said. “That’s a mistake. I wouldn’t put any kind of limitations on him. For me, he’s built to win.”
Dernier also has advice to anybody who doubts that Sandberg would accomplish,1 as a major league administrator,1.
DES MOINES – Ryne Sandberg was the starting second baseman for the National League in the 1989 All-Star Game in Anaheim. Twenty-one years after,1, he was back in Anaheim on All-Star weekend last ages,1, working.
This off-season, we will apprentice,1 if Sandberg has proved abundant,1 to the Cubs and their new buyer,1, Tom Ricketts, who became a Cubs fan in the summer of 1984, if,1 Sandberg was winning the National League Most Valuable Player Award. With Lou Piniella backward,1, the Cubs’ managing job will be accessible,1 after the season.
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“Ryno did a lot of listening — he still does, he’s good that way,” Dernier said. “And then he’ll pause and he’ll think it over, and if he needs to acknowledge,1, then he’ll do so. He’s able-bodied,1 thought-out, affected,1. He’s a hell of a agenda,1 player. He’ll yield,1 your money.”
“That’s a good allegory,1,” said Dallas Green, a appropriate,1 adviser to the Phillies who brought Sandberg to Chicago as Cubs’ G.M. in 1982. “Sandberg was a quarterback on the field, as our guy is.”
Bob Dernier, the Cubs’ ambulant,1 outfield and base-running instructor, has known Sandberg since 1978, when they played amateur,1 ball in Helena, Mont. Dernier knows a side of Sandberg that others have generally,1 missed.
Sutcliffe and Green said they never imagined Sandberg as a manager, which makes sense, because Sandberg didn’t, either. But that was only because his sole focus, Sandberg said, was to play that day’s game the right way. It is what he demands of his players.
General Manager Jim Hendry has said Sandberg is a candidate in what will be an all-embracing,1 search. There is a strong sentiment among Cubs fans and former teammates to hire Sandberg.
No chance.

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