CHICAGO -- Dave Martinez made his Major League debut here, played with the Cubs for four seasons and returned as a bench coach to help guide them to their first World Series championship in more than a century. Along the way, he began imagining what it would be like to one day become a Major League manager.
Martinez returned to Wrigley Field on Friday as the manager for the Nationals, and as he made the walk from his office in the visiting clubhouse toward the news conference room, he was stopped numerous times by stadium workers and former Cubs employees who wanted to say hello, and he spent some time catching up on the field with Cubs manager Joe Maddon and Cubs president Theo Epstein.