Roger Craig's Life in Baseball

Craig was a pitcher, pitching coach and manager who was an important figure in the game's history.

Roger Craig died on June 4th at the age of 93. When I started following baseball in the mid-1970s, Craig seemed to be one of those baseball guys who had been around forever. I knew him as the manager of the Padres, the pitching coach for the Tigers and most memorably as the manager of the Giants from the tail end of the 1985 season through 1992. In 198…