Suffern's Walt Weiss: From son's team to big-league manager
Photo credit: AP, 2008 | Walt Weiss has been hired to replace Jim Tracy as manager of the Colorado Rockies.
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After he was named manager of the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night, Walt Weiss called the man who tirelessly hit him hundreds of ground balls on ballfields in Suffern, long after the game was over and everyone else had gone home for dinner.
Weiss and his father talked for nearly two hours, the son admitting to being nervous. Having spent the last few years coaching his son Brody's Denver-area...
