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A note on Finn Garrity -
Things haven't worked out as well as Finn would have liked, so far. He turned down the position of League Commissioner to skipper the Carbonear Caribou. There he butted heads with ownership over scouting, bullpen roles, and everything inbetween. Garrity was fired after the 1966 campaign, going 131-169 (.437) overall.
Distraught and fearing his career in baseball was over (again), Garrity returned to the classroom at Bishop Troy HS in 1967, where he once again taught and helped coach the Trojans baseball team. One day, he received a phone call from an old friend, Dick McGlone. McGlone had been Garrity's baseball coach in high school, and, thanks to his recent success in the oil business, was now the owner of the Gambo Dolphins,
After exchanging pleasantries, McGlone got to the point of the call. He began to tell Finn of the Dolphins' pitching woes and that they intended to replace their current pitching coach during the offseason. He asked the former manager for recommendations, to which Garrity could only think of one -himself.
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