FROM WASHINGTON TO WARSAW

WARSAW, Poland – “I’m the winningest manager (by percentage) in Nationals’ history,” said John McLaren, with a grin, sitting in the lobby of an upscale hotel minutes from Old Town Warsaw.

It is a glorious spring morning in the Polish capital, a city of about 1.8 million whose World War II horrors are always just around the corner and enough to scare any hardened historian. But McLaren – a baseball lifer who turns 72 in September – has come to the “New York City of Eastern Europe” in his latest global journey to promote the game of baseball.

The new coaching staff of the Polish national baseball team is, from left to right, former MLB pitcher Dennis Cook, Paul Bragiel, who grew up in the…