He looked down at his spit-shinned black shoes.
They were black, after all.
Brad Fischer spent the first 28 years of his coaching career wearing white shoes.
The white shoes were his only work treads.
You work for the Oakland Athletics, you wear white shoes.
Fischer, the State College Spikes’ new manager, looked down more than once during a Pittsburgh Pirates’ minicamp earlier this month in Bradenton, Fla. At times, he still doesn’t fully believe he doesn’t work for the A’s.
