Baseball players tend to lead narrow, self-absorbed lives.
Big egos help support big-league success.
It may be a team sport, but it is also a game of highly focused individuals taking turns. Especially when he's running a young club, it often falls to the manager to remind the individuals they're part of a team. Toronto's Jim Fregosi, who has managed close to 2,000 games over 14 big-league seasons, looked for leadership in all the wrong places during his first year at the Blue Jays' helm. In a fit of nostalgia during spring training, he brought in Dave Hollins, one of the hard noses from his pennant-winning Phillies of 1993. When he wasn't hurt, Hollins didn't hit.