LA Times · Jun 16, 2018
Even-keeled is in Dave Roberts’ DNA
As comfortable as Dave Roberts is talking, he is also a believer in the power of nonverbal communication. It’s one reason he’s a card-giver.
The Dodgers manager likes to give greeting cards because he liked to receive them, particularly from his father, Waymon, a reserved and sometimes intimidating man who served in the Marines for three decades.
“I’ll tell you, some of the best things my dad ever conveyed to me were on a card, as opposed to him telling me,” Roberts said.
And on Father’s Day, Roberts would send cards to his father, each time taking the painstaking effort of searching for the right words to inscribe.