Have you ever known anyone who seems to be in the right place at the right time? Maybe they always luck into a great job. Maybe it’s the friend who always seems to walk away with the pretty girl. Someone who’s born under a lucky star, or as Steven Root says to Woody Harrelson’s character in No Country for Old Men, “you’ve led something of a charmed life, haven’t you?”
Former Royals manager Jim Frey was a bit like that. Frey was born in Cleveland, but later moved to Cincinnati, where one of his best friends (and high school baseball teammate) was Dandy Don Zimmer.