COLUMNIST, MLB.COM
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Ken Bracey was baseball’s E.F. Hutton.
“When you were in a meeting discussing a player, when Brace spoke you listened,” said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, who knew Bracey from Bochy’s days as a player, coach and manager with the Padres.
“He’d sit over there off to the side and a player would be brought up and he would say, `He can’t play,’ and shake his head,” Bochy said.
Would he be wrong?
“No,” Bochy said.
And if he liked a player?
“He wasn’t wrong then, either,” Bochy said. At the age of 80, Bracey passed away last month, the victim of pancreatic and liver cancer, which was discovered just two weeks before his death.
He was the ultimate baseball lifer. Signed by the Yankees at the age…
