Ron Washington might be the last of a dying breed — an old-school baseball lifer who speaks his mind, tells a great story and is a wonderful quote.
That’s why it’s a treat to have Washington — the current Atlanta Braves third-base coach and ex-Texas Rangers manager who is approaching 50 years in professional baseball — as the guest on this week’s episode of the Yahoo Sports MLB Podcast. Washington is as entertaining as ever as he talks about baseball issues both serious and funny — including the lack of black managers in MLB, his own history with some of the game’s best managers and a long-passed-around story by baseball writers of which he is the star.
The story, which we’re happy to put on the record on this podcast (with the help of ESPN’s Howard Bryant), has been shared by baseball writers many times over beers and now we’re hearing it from Washington’s point of view. It’s a story about his clash with a reporter who was covering the A’s when he was a…
