OAKLAND — It took 10 years for baseball writers to elect Tim Raines to the Hall of Fame.
It would have taken the two Bay Area managers 10 seconds.
Back in the 1980s, when Raines was a holy terror on the bases, Bruce Bochy and Bob Melvin had the worst seats in the house. They were catchers trying to throw out one of the greatest base stealers of all-time.
And one of them actually did.
Four times, in fact.
“Then that was luck,” Melvin, the A’s manager said last week, surprised upon hearing the number.