PHILADELPHIA — As a big league pitcher, Dallas Green was pretty mediocre.
“I was a 20-game winner,” he would joke, “it just took me five years to do it.”
Instead, it was in another role where the imposing, 6-foot-5 Green really made noise.
“When you think of big, with that deep voice, that booming voice, he could hold a team meeting, boy, he could scare you right out of your seat,” Cleveland manager Terry Francona recalled.
Green, the tough-talking, no-nonsense skipper who in 1980 guided the Philadelphia Phillies to their first World Series championship, died Wednesday.