The Lair Report: 2038.05 – Member of First Family of BBA Retires

GM: Joe Faulstick

Moderator: Joby21

jleddy
Ex-GM
Posts: 3216
Joined: Mon May 27, 2019 5:46 pm
Location: Long Beach, CA
Has thanked: 3377 times
Been thanked: 1174 times

The Lair Report: 2038.05 – Member of First Family of BBA Retires

Post by jleddy » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:06 pm

Image
The National Football League had the Matthews, stock-car racing had the Pettys, Sutters ruled the National Hockey League and table tennis had its Huang Dynasty. Ask any baseball fan and they will tell you the LaLooshes are the first family of the Brewster Baseball Association.

In 1973, the late Ebby Calvin LaLoosh won the Frick League's first Steve Nebraska Award as its top pitcher and today, his grandson, Lawrence Columbus 'Crash' LaLoosh, continues a stellar pitching career, winning three Nebraska Awards of his own. But linking the two over the sixty-five year history of the BBA is Robert LaLoosh, son of Ebby and father to Lawrence.

Earlier last week, Robert LaLoosh, 61, quietly stepped down from his role as pitching coach for the UMEBA's Bucharest Balauri, citing the wish to get back to watching son's career in person, something he was able to do for eight years as pitching coach for the Yellow Springs Nine. "I've seen and done enough in this game," LaLoosh told Baseball News Network. "It's the right time to step away and now I look forward to spending these next few years following Crash." In hearing the news, Yellow Springs GM Ron Collins reflected on the consummate professional's coaching career: "What can I say? He was an icon in our dugout and is still an icon in the Yellow Springs community. He was a huge part of creating what were arguably some of the greatest pitching staffs in the history of the Nine franchise. The entire Yellow Springs organization wishes Bobby a long and healthy retirement."

LaLoosh, known for his knee-bending curveball and Bugs Bunny baffling changeup, was taken by the then-Baltimore Monarchs in the second round of the 1999 Draft. After spending a decade in the minors, including an AAA All-Star nod in 2007, a 31-year-old LaLoosh finally made it to the majors in 2009, debuting with the Phoenix Talons. After two years in the BBA spread over 28 starts, LaLoosh would spend 2011 in AAA, making two starts before retiring.

LaLoosh would resurface again in professional baseball fifteen years later, hired in 2026 as the pitching coach for the Madrid Matadors of the now-defunct European Baseball Alliance. Then in 2029, Collins reached out to LaLoosh and offered him the same role in the BBA for Yellow Springs, a position he'd fulfill until 2036. The next season, the Edmonton Jackrabbits made LaLoosh the bench coach, his first non-pitching related job. This past offseason the upstart Unified Middle East Baseball Association was the next and final stop in LaLoosh's long career, where he spent the last season as the pitching coach for the Bucharest Balauri.

"I never got the chance to work with LaLoosh," Balauri GM Joe Lederer tweeted, "but I know his years in baseball helped lead to our league starting and thriving." No word on who will succeed LaLoosh in Bucharest but rest assured, that coach will have big shoes to fill.

Image
It may have been a short, unnoticed
transaction in the news but it was a
long, notable career for Robert LaLoosh.
"My $#!? doesn't work in the playoffs." - Billy Beane Joe Lederer

User avatar
HoosierVic
Ex-GM
Posts: 3106
Joined: Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:16 pm
Has thanked: 472 times
Been thanked: 1020 times

Re: The Lair Report: 2038.05 – Member of First Family of BBA Retires

Post by HoosierVic » Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:48 pm

Nice send-off to a legendary figure.

User avatar
RonCo
GB: JL Frontier Division Director
Posts: 19815
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2015 10:48 pm
Has thanked: 1982 times
Been thanked: 2902 times

Re: The Lair Report: 2038.05 – Member of First Family of BBA Retires

Post by RonCo » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:36 am

Outstanding
GM: Bikini Krill
Nothing Matters But the Pacific Pennant
Roster

User avatar
shoeless.db
BBA GM
Posts: 2317
Joined: Wed May 29, 2019 10:25 pm
Has thanked: 1823 times
Been thanked: 1090 times

Re: The Lair Report: 2038.05 – Member of First Family of BBA Retires

Post by shoeless.db » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:17 am

Great write-up. I need to look into the history of my own guys a bit more now. This is exactly why I joined this league

Aarav wants to tell you Bucharest still sucks, though.
Sacramento Mad Popes (unretired)
-- Vic Caleca Team News Award Winner 2052
-- BBA Champion 2053
-- Pacific Champs 2040, 2042, 2043, 2047, 2048, 2049, 2051, 2053, 2054
Life is a bit more beautiful when time is measured by the half inning rather than the half hour.

Post Reply Previous topicNext topic

Return to “Sao Paulo Pilots”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests