He'd spend the next seven seasons climbing through the Mariners system, but he never made it to the Majors.
He became a player-coach in the late '90s and he managed within the Mariners organization until leaving to manage the Braves Triple-A team in 2007. Yesterday, Brundage was named the new manager of the Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs and he finally returns to the Phillies organization after a 24 year absence. He brings with him 13 seasons of experience as a minor league manager, during which time he won three league championships.
The IronPigs manager for the past two seasons, Ryne Sandberg, joins the Major League ranks this season as the Phillies new third base coach. It would be cool if Brundage joined Sandberg next season at the Major League level, finally ending his 27-year minor league odyssey.
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Wow nice find.
I knew this $2 team set would come in handy one day!
Thanks for the heads up. I vaguely remember his name from playing for the Reading (nee Phillies). If he ever becomes a big-league coach with the Phils, I may need to track this down, get it signed, and add it to my signed Phillies card collection. (That worked for P.J. Forbes, Ramon Henderson and Gary Varsho, each of whom had minor league cards but never standard-sized Phillies cards--although Varsho later had a giveaway card as a coach that I used to replace the minor league card in my collection.)
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