WASHINGTON – Shawn Camp, a veteran Major Leaguer from Fairfax, was preparing for his second season with Tampa Bay when the team hired a new pitching coach.
It was before the 2007 season and Tampa Bay landed Jim Hickey to look over a young pitching staff, after he had veterans such as Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte with the Houston Astros.
Hickey took over for Mike Butcher and worked under manager Joe Maddon.
“Obviously it was his first year with the organization,” Camp, 44, told Federal Baseball on Monday, hours after Hickey was named the new pitching coach for the Nationals.