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How Joe Maddon, MLB's oldest manager, stays young at heart

CLEVELAND -- Mike Montgomery was making his way through the parking lot toward the Chicago Cubs' spring training clubhouse when he noticed a station wagon parked near the entrance. Inside, Joe Maddon was fiddling with his car's sound system and yelled out, 'Hey, come check this out,' so the reliever hopped in the passenger's seat of his manager's car.

"There was something wrong with the Bluetooth," Montgomery recalled. "So I got in the car, and he started telling me about this vintage station wagon [1985 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser], and we started talking cars. We had a great conversation.