Steve Webber will wear jersey No. 27 for the Tucson Padres this year, which is about one numeral for every baseball team he has played for or coached since he left tiny Van Buren High School of Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1966.
Webber has worn the jersey of college and pro teams named Salukis, Gators, Bulldogs, Yankees, Padres, Grasshoppers,
TinCaps, Storm, Beavers, Eagles, Missions and Padres.
Someone should do a movie on where he has been and what he has been through. Is Kevin Costner busy?
Webber has known what it means to have George Steinbrenner as a boss, and he knows what it is to coach a baseball team in the College World Series and leave Omaha, Neb., with the championship ring on his finger.
For the next five months, Webber, 64, will share considerable time, home and road, in the dugout and in the clubhouse, with Bob Skube, 54, who has nothing and everything in common with the man who coached the Georgia Bulldogs to 500 victories and the 1990 national championship.
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Webber is the Padres’ pitching coach; Skube is the Padres’ hitting coach.
Read this entire column in Wednesday's Arizona Daily Star.
