I first saw Tony Guzzo’s passion for coaching baseball four decades ago when he burst out of a dugout at Norfolk Catholic High School and began jawing with an umpire.
My younger brother, Tim, a pitcher for Lake Taylor, had made a sensational running catch as he fell into the Catholic dugout.
Tim was still face down when Guzzo sprinted onto the infield, red-faced and screaming. His prominent nose was inches from the ump as he yelled, “He was in foul territory!”
It was a measure of the great respect Guzzo already commanded that the ump didn’t toss him.