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Orioles reassign longtime coach Hendricks
Baltimore Orioles: Orioles bullpen coach Elrod Hendricks will be
given another job in the organization because of a mild stroke suffered in
April that forced him to miss 18 games.
The team said Monday it has not decided on the new position for
the year-old Hendricks. His year coaching tenure is the
longest in Orioles history.
"We determined that it is in Elrod's best interests not to go
through the rigors of a full season of games and travel," Mike
Flanagan, the Orioles' executive vice president for baseball
operations, said Monday. "We are exploring ways for Elrod to
continue to be an asset to the organization."
Hendricks has spent more than four decades as a professional
player and coach. Hendricks had 12 major league seasons as a
player, spending at least part of 11 seasons as an Oriole. He was
made the bullpen coach following the season and was a
player-coach in
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In his own way, Elrod Hendricks was the most valuable Oriole every year. He was a one-man community outreach program, forever taking the time to sign autographs, chat up fans, make appearances, giggle with kids – the kind of stuff that pro athletes used to do all the time.
Elrod – last name not required in this town – never felt he was too swell for that just because he had played and coached in the major leagues. To the contrary, he realized it was more and more important that he fill the role because fewer and fewer of his baseball brethren did.
His death last night leaves a void that can’t be filled. Without people who do what he did, a sports franchise can become a faceless operation, cold and calculating and hell-bent only on winning. The Elrods of the world warm things up, make them human, accessible, even funny.
Elrod walked the walk on this as the longtime operator of a summer baseball camp in Reisterstown. He would come off road trips and be up
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Hendricks would have turned 65 today.
Orioles executive vice president Mike Flanagan, a friend of Mr. Hendricks’, confirmed the death but didn’t want to comment until he had notified other members of the organization.
Mr. Hendricks died at Baltimore-Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, hospital spokeswoman Allison Eatough told the Associated Press. She did not know the time of death.
Acting Lt. Will Bethea of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department told the news service that the department received a report at p.m. of an unconscious man at the BWI Marriott hotel in Linthicum. A department ambulance took the man to the medical center, he said.
Washington Nationals manager Frank Robinson, a ingångsrum of Fame outfielder who played alongside Mr. Hendricks and later managed teams that He