World Series Wisdom From Felipe Alou

With all the media available today, baseball wise men can seem a dime a dozen, so it’s a privilege when someone with genuine wisdom appears for 45 minutes of pre-game chatter as Felipe Alou did Saturday night.
Alou, now 75, managed the Giants from 2003-2006 after leading the Montreal Expos for 10 years, including the 1994 team that included Larry Walker, Cliff Floyd and Marquis Grissom and was the best in baseball heading into the strike. He was one of the game’s first Latin stars and managers, and he paved the way for a generation of Dominican talent.

Alou, who played for the Giants from 1958-1963, said it would be special for this current group to bring San Francisco its first World Championship. Alou was a part of the 1962 team that lost to the Yankees 1-0 in Game 7.

“When we went to Spring training this year, there was not a lot of people who were talking about us in the World Series, much less winning the World Series,” he said. “There was a time during this season when we didn’t look very good.”
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