Will Leitch had a great article today about everybody’s favorite gangsta, Jerry Manuel. Will tells us his favorite Jerry moment:
My favorite Jerry Manuel story is the time he dressed up like a bellhop. In 2000, while manager of the Chicago White Sox, Manuel was suspended for eight games, forcing him to watch his Sox play from the team hotel. The team bus arrived, and it took a few minutes before a couple of players realized that the bellhop who was high-fiving them was actually their manager.
It’s the perfect Manuel moment: goofy, team-building, feisty, and, most of all, a self-aggrandizing, oft-retold example of his modern-day Casey Stengel Zen.
Will also shares that even though Jerry says Tolstoy is one of his greatest influences, he’s never read Anna Karenina. But we all know, real gangstas don’t read.
