Today’s Game: Charlie Manuel

All this week we’re taking a closer look at the 10 people on the Today’s Game Era Ballot for the Hall of Fame.

There’s a beautiful irony in that some of the greatest hitting coaches in baseball history — Charlie Lau, Walt Hriniak and Kevin Long, for example — couldn’t actually hit a lick themselves. Well, that’s probably an Alanis Morissette-level misuse…