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Dick Bonalewicz: A progressive US baseball coach whose British clinics were legendary

dick_bonalewiczBack in May, we ran a story written by Jeff Archer on mid-week baseball in Britain in the 1970s. The “biggest highlight,” in Jeff’s view, was the coaching programme based around the visit to Britain of the State University of New York at Brockport. Sadly, Dick Bonalewicz, the manager of that team, very recently passed away. Jeff emailed me with the photo to the right (“This was his favorite pose; however, he never followed through on the punch,” wrote Jeff) and the story below on Dick. Continue reading