OAKLAND -- It doesn’t take much to get Jack McKeon going.
He is a reservoir of baseball stories, the Babe Ruth of yarns, and with the Marlins in Oakland to play the A’s, we figured McKeon was worth a call. Someone to fill our ear. Because, really, the Marlins and A’s share little in common.
They seldom play one another. They’ve never made a significant trade, not unless your definition of significant is Mark Redman for Michael Neu. They exist as Major League co-members the same way a polar bear and camel cohabit Earth.
But in McKeon, there’s a link.