Larry Bowa was the manager of the Phillies in the top of the 21st century when performance-enhanced home runs were flying out of major-league parks at a record pace. Bowa wondered at the time why his team did not have more sluggers. The Phillies finished 12th out of 16 teams in the National League with 169 home runs in his first year as manager.
Fast-forward eight years and you can hear Bowa talking about home runs again. This time, when he was the third-base coach of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Bowa's team was the victim of all that power the Phillies wielded on their way to consecutive World Series appearances.