SignOnSanDiego.com · Apr 1, 2019
Former Padres pitching coach Greg Booker dies
San Diego Padres pitching coach Greg Booker, center, confers with catcher Wiki Gonzalez, left, and starting pitcher Oliver Perez at Coors Field in Denver in 2003.Greg Booker, a reliever on the Padres’ 1984 World Series team and a coach with the team from 1997 to 2003, died Saturday in Burlington, N.C., after a long fight with melanoma, according to a funeral home obituary. He was 58.
The Padres’ 10th-round pick out of Elon University in 1981, Booker debuted with the big league club in 1983 and posted a 3.30 ERA in 57 1/3 innings the next year as the Padres advanced to the postseason and the World Series for the first time in franchise history.