Tacoma Rainiers manager Pat Listach keeps a jar of candy on his office desk. It’s a reminder that despite the frequent closed-door meetings regarding professional baseball players and their itinerant careers, there’s a time and place for levity.
Listach decided to make the candy jar a permanent piece of his desktop because of Madison Farquhar, daughter of former Rainiers reliever Danny Farquhar.
“Danny used to bring his little girl in here when his wife was pregnant with their second child,” Listach said Monday. “She’d come in for some candy and that’s why the candy is still here.