Danny Ozark Interview Re: Brooklyn Dodgers / WWII
metrotheme
Posts: 548
http://www.baseballhappenings.net/2009/05/danny-ozark-85-phillies-manager-wwii.html
Death is never a timely thing, especially when there are questions that are left unanswered. That is the feeling that I had when I learned of Danny Ozark's passing on May 7, 2009. A few months earlier, I had interviewed a spry Ozark on his cell phone for almost an hour about his baseball career and his attempts to ascend through the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Ozark, like many others of his era, was whisked away from professional baseball to serve in World War II, only to return to a crowded minor league system that was about to experience the effects of integration.
Death is never a timely thing, especially when there are questions that are left unanswered. That is the feeling that I had when I learned of Danny Ozark's passing on May 7, 2009. A few months earlier, I had interviewed a spry Ozark on his cell phone for almost an hour about his baseball career and his attempts to ascend through the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in the late 1940's and early 1950's. Ozark, like many others of his era, was whisked away from professional baseball to serve in World War II, only to return to a crowded minor league system that was about to experience the effects of integration.
0