Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch is making a special addition to his All-Star coaching staff for baseball's summer classic next month in Washington: Retired Astros first base coach Rich Dauer will be in uniform and assisting Hinch.
"Just like old times," Hinch said in Oakland, Calif., as the World Series champions opened a three-game series with the Athletics.
In November, Dauer was rushed to a hospital during Houston's downtown celebration of its first World Series title and he survived a difficult surgery on a blood clot in his brain. The neurosurgeon who performed the surgery, Dr.