Bob Clear wore 17 different club uniforms from 1946-1967.
I had a very interesting comment from a fellow named Mike Ross in response to a brief piece I wrote three days ago on the death of the late Bob Clear. It reminded me again of how much there is to wonder about in the way human energy moves forward, for better and worse, in its play of influence upon others.
So much hinges on whether we give or withhold from others.
As a longtime minor league instructor and bullpen coach for the Angels, Bob Clear was one of the two main voices who suggested that the club take a bad-hitting catcher named Troy Percival and convert him into a relief pitcher. Of course, we know what happened from there. Percival went on to become one of the top closers in the game.
Clear also exerted an enormous amount of influence upon a young catcher in the Angels system. Although this particular player never made it to the big leagues as a player, he learned how to be a teacher of others from another fellow who never played in the big leagues either. Today that young catcher is now middle-aged but quite successful as the manager of the Tampa Bay Rays. According to Mike Ross, Maddon credits the late Bob Clear with being the most important mentor in his baseball life.
It’s a small world, except for one big always-present wild card crazy thing. – The more we become willing to share what we have to give with others, the more our world of connection grows and spreads across the lily pond of human experience on how to improve upon and solve all kinds of human-initiated problems.
Maybe if we had more Bob Clears working in offshore drilling technology we wouldn’t be facing the mess we now have on our hands. Who knows?
All I know for sure is that I just had to bring you this rest of the Bob Clear story. The details of Bob’s later baseball career are beautifully covered in an article about him on Wikipedia. Just Google “Bob Clear” and go there for further details.
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