Bret Boone: ‘I’ve been able to turn the page now and move on’
Article By Unknown on 14th May, 2010
Ken Bradley, Sporting News
With so much baseball in his blood -- his brother Aaron, father Bob and grandfather Ray all played in the majors -- it's easy to understand why Bret Boone couldn't stay away from the game for long after retiring in 2008. The 41-year-old Boone, a three-time All-Star with 252 career homers, was hired to manage the Golden Baseball League's Victoria Seals earlier this year. He discussed the career move with Sporting News' Ken Bradley.
Sporting News: How did you land this job with Victoria?
Bret Boone: I got a phone call from a buddy of mine who was in this league last year, Paul Abbott, who pitched -- and I played with him in Seattle in '01 and '02. He asked if I was interested. You know, I never really considered doing something like this and I thought this might be interesting and a good experience -- kind of get my foot back in the door and find out if this is something I want to do.
The opportunity was for 3 1/2 months versus the usual five- or six-month minor league season, so that worked family-wise better for me. And I think it's just an opportunity to get some experience and find out if this is something I want to do, and hopefully along the way help a few kids.
SN: For someone who hasn't been out of the game as a player long and whose family is so much about baseball, was it difficult to step away?
BB: It was very hard. I've had a lot of friends who retired and did very well and were happy. For me it was a little different. It was tough. When I walked away from the game I thought it was going to be easy for me, and it was kind of like, Wow, all this stress and stuff I'd been going through for 15, 20 years -- finally, I can just relax and step off the stage. But you find you miss it. It's your way of life for so many years and basically all you've done. All of a sudden it's not there.
It's definitely been an adjustment f...
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Sporting News: How did you land this job with Victoria?
Bret Boone: I got a phone call from a buddy of mine who was in this league last year, Paul Abbott, who pitched -- and I played with him in Seattle in '01 and '02. He asked if I was interested. You know, I never really considered doing something like this and I thought this might be interesting and a good experience -- kind of get my foot back in the door and find out if this is something I want to do.
The opportunity was for 3 1/2 months versus the usual five- or six-month minor league season, so that worked family-wise better for me. And I think it's just an opportunity to get some experience and find out if this is something I want to do, and hopefully along the way help a few kids.
SN: For someone who hasn't been out of the game as a player long and whose family is so much about baseball, was it difficult to step away?
BB: It was very hard. I've had a lot of friends who retired and did very well and were happy. For me it was a little different. It was tough. When I walked away from the game I thought it was going to be easy for me, and it was kind of like, Wow, all this stress and stuff I'd been going through for 15, 20 years -- finally, I can just relax and step off the stage. But you find you miss it. It's your way of life for so many years and basically all you've done. All of a sudden it's not there.
It's definitely been an adjustment f...
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