Courtesy of Ryan Flaherty
Some of Cubs bench coach Ryan Flaherty’s earliest baseball memories come from joining his dad and the University of Southern Maine baseball team on their annual spring trip to Florida.
Ed Flaherty, who since has been inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and amassed a laundry list of coaching awards in his 39 seasons at the helm for the Huskies, already had built an impressive résumé in those early years leading the Division III program.
Before the weather finally turned in the Northeast, the team would head south for baseball weather and a packed schedule.