Jerry Walker -- Baseball Lifer

In the Summer of 2017, I interviewed Jerry Walker.  Mr. Walker was a baseball lifer, debuting for the Baltimore Orioles in 1957 as an eighteen year-old right-handed pitcher and retiring in the 2010s after serving as a player, coach, manager, general manager, scout, and advisor.  With more than fifty years experience in Major League Baseball and his recent days involved in front offices, I asked Mr. Walker if there was a particular trade he was involved with that he was pleased with.  He laughed.  "Oh, well the McGwire trade at St. Louis wasn’t too bad," he said referring to the 1997 transaction when St. Louis sent three right-handed pitchers to Oakland in exchange for the slugging first baseman Mark McGwire who went on to club 70 home runs in 1998.  Mr. Walker passed on July 14.  Rest easy.