Report: Pirates offered managerial job to John Wooden in 1964

[ASFN Admin]

May 10—Clint Hurdle likes to quote and read as much as he can about John Wooden, the basketball coach who lived four months short of his 100th birthday and led UCLA to 10 national championships in 12 years. But who knew Wooden and Hurdle almost ended up on the same list of former Pittsburgh Pirates managers? That revelation came from award-winning hockey play-by-play broadcaster Doc Emrick, ...

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