Dom Amore: For UConn’s pitching guru, the roster of alums in the major leagues keeps growing
What happened
Back in March of 1962, J.O. Christian, who’d just retired after 25 years of coaching baseball at UConn, took a spring training junket down to Florida. As he spoke with The Courant’s Bill Lee, one of my most illustrious predecessors in this job, the manager of the Mets, aged 71, Casey Stengel, limped toward them. Casey wanted to pick the UConn coach’s brain about college coaching and college ...
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