John Mallee

The Athletic

By Patrick Mooney Jun 6, 2018

John Mallee was working a White Sox youth baseball camp in the mid-1990s and supposed to warm up the crowd and introduce major-league coach Ron Jackson. Except Mallee kept talking to the point where Jackson saw something in the young guy who gave private hitting lessons to local kids.

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The Athletic

By Ben Harris May 10, 2018

The opposing starter Maikel Franco had singled against the night before was tossing a football down the third-base line. Some of his Phillies teammates were stretching in shallow right field. Four hours before his 3-for-5, two-RBI night began, Franco stood at home plate taking soft underhand tosses from hitting coach John Mallee and launching them to the deepest parts of Citizens Bank Park.

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