Photo of the Day: Before he was NL Manager of the Year, Joe Maddon was a dashing MiLB skipper
Photo: Maddon as an MiLB manager in the '80s
Earlier on Tuesday night, Joe Maddon won the Baseball Writers' Association of America National League Manager of the Year Award. It's a well-deserved honor after a season spent devouring hamburgers and leading the Cubs to the NLCS. But it's also a time for reflection, on a career spent reaching this pinnacle and all the stops along the way. One of those stops: the Salem Angels of the now-defunct Class A Northwestern League. Maddon managed the team in 1982, where he won -- wait for it -- Manager of the Year.
Why do we bring this up, you ask? Because there just so happens to be some photographic evidence, and it's everything you could've hoped for:
33 years ago, #Cubs' Joe Maddon was named NW League Manager of Year with Salem #Angels: https://t.co/zLND2wQliv pic.twitter.com/11wa0mqI1k
- MiLB.com (@MiLB) November 17, 2015If only Joe Maddon were actually Peter Pan, forever young and forever with that haircut.