Bucky Harris
Manager 1954 Washington Senators
Age 57
Baseball Lifers have The Look. Years of seeing out upon the diamonds with a distant gaze produces a common appearance to the men that inhabit the dugouts. Endless hours of absorbing the sights of the game, calculating a next move, and assessing skills on both sides of the ledger all set against a backdrop of constant uncertainty take their toll. They all entered the game as clear-skinned youths. But, the cumulative effect the game takes is written clearly in aged faces. The “Crows’ Feet” etched into the corners of their eyes are not so much like gentle river deltas meeting salt water. Rather the chasms are rough and jagged-edged as if they were made by chisels and hammers struck into sandstone. Tool marks from mishits predominate as if the tiny invisible craftsmen who struck the permanent blows were in a hurry. To look at a Baseball Lifer’s face is to see what decades under pressure does. It’s all there encoded into those ragged cavernous Crows’ Feet. Amassed in the leathery braille in no particular order are hires, firings, blown saves, wins, blown leads, injured stars, playoff losses, celebrations, lost friends, and Opening Days.
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