S2 Ep1651: PLAY BALL Dan Hirshberg: Blue Jays' Dennis Holmberg

With 1560 wins as a minor league manager, two years as a coach on the Blue Jays' major league club, and someone who has mentored numerous outstanding players such as Noah Syndergaard and Carlos DelGado, Dennis Holmberg (right) has a heck of a resume in his 50 years of professional baseball, most of those years with the Toronto organization. In this episode of Play Ball!! Dennis talks about his relationship with players and executive Pat Gillick, and why he enjoyed working with young players chasing the dream, as well as relating his fish tank story and his gig as an occasional radio broadcaster for Dunedin Blue Jay games. 👉Play Ball!! with Dan Hirshberg  [email protected] it comes to Baseball, Pinellas County has plenty to brag about. In this first installment of Play Ball!! with Dan Hirshberg, Dan brings those bragging rights to life. The author of the newly published book, Baseball in Pinellas County, Dan covers a lot of ground in the book and in this podcast, highlighting people like Casey Kotchman, Bobby Wilson, Toby Hall, Patrick Boyd, Tom Zimmer, Tom Kotchman, and Boof Bonser, as well as legendary coaches Bill Brinker and Todd Vaughan, and three very special high school championship teams, 2001 Seminole High, 2017 Calvary Christian High and 1979 Clearwater Central Catholic. Dan also refers to the untimely death of Steve Giorgiadis, a promising left handed pitcher at Seminole and later at the University of Florida. Real people, real stories. It's what makes Play Ball!! with Dan Hirshberg something special. 👉Read about the book here.👉Listen to all of Dan Hirshberg's Play Ball podcasts!#playball #danhirshberg #baseball #baseballinpinellascounty #baseballteams #baseballplayers #baseballcoaches #highschoolbaseball #baseballpinellas #stpete #stpetefl  #tampabay #radio #radiostpete #dennisholmberg