The 32-year-old Coco Crisp has been in the big leagues since his debut in 2002 with the Cleveland Indians. Since then, the switch-hitting outfielder has also played for the Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals, and Oakland Athletics.

Now the word from MLB Trade Rumors is that Crisp is likely to add another team to his resume and it could be one from his Southern California hometown. The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs have both been talking to Crisp about joining them to play left field, the site notes.

AS MLBTR points out, the Cubs already have Alfonso Soriano out in left and have him under contract for another three seasons.

Crisp hit .264 with eight homers and 26 doubles this past season for the A’s. He also had 49 stolen bases, a career high. Of course, this was also the first year since 2006 that Crisp was healthy enough to play in more than 130 games. The last time he played more than 100 games was in 2007 when he helped the Red Sox win a World Series.r

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Steve Hamilton, had he not succumbed to colon cancer in 1997, would have turned 76 on Nov. 30. I remember the former Yankee, especially for one sequence of pitches he threw in a summer game against the Cleveland Indians.

As a New York Yankees fan, these are fond memories from a time when the club was in the midst of a long drought.

Hamilton was an exceptional athlete, having played for the Minneapolis Lakers during the 1958 through 1960 seasons. Hamilton, who stood 6 foot 7 inches tall, averaged 4.5 points over that span, but then turned his attention to baseball. Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in 1958, Hamilton made his major league debut in 1961 for the Tribe. Cleveland traded him away at season’s end to Washington, where he labored for one campaign before the Yankees sent pitcher Jim Coates to the Senators for him in April of 1963.

Steve was a combined 12-3 with eight saves over the next two years, both ending in New York American League pennants, but World Series defeats. He was mainly a reliever; Hamilton started just 17 games out of the 421 he appeared in over his 12-year career. Hamilton started just seven times with the Yankees, throwing a pair of complete games and one shutout. In 1965, as the team trended into a downward spiral as their stars grew old, Hamilton had an exemplary season, pitching to a 1.39 earned run average in 46 games. He ended his stint with the Yankees in 1970, going on to hurl for the White Sox and Cubs in Chicago, sandwiched around a turn with the Giants.

However, Hamilton did not leave the Bronx without being part of one of the strangest scenes ever witnessed on a professional ball field. On June 24, 1970, Hamilton was mopping up in the second game of a doubleheader versus Cleveland, with the Indians ahead 7-1. In the previous season, he had developed a blooper pitch, throwing it high in the air to the batter after hesitating at the top of his delivery. Tony Horton, the Cleveland first baseman, led off the frame. Hamilton threw his pitch—he nicknamed it the “Folly Floater”—to Horton, who fouled it off behind the plate.

Horton motioned to Hamilton to throw the Floater one more time. The vast majority of fans that think they recall this game will relate how Horton proceeded to strike out. In reality, Horton popped the ball up foul, high enough for Thurman Munson to make a good, running grab in back of home. Horton threw his bat into the air in disgust and put his hands over his head as he turned back to the dugout as if to motion to the roaring fans that he was giving up. Before he got to the Cleveland dugout, Horton got on his hands and knees and crawled the last few feet as the crowd went wild.

Sources:

http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/h/hamilst01.html

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hamilst01.shtml

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/04/sports/steve-hamilton-62-floater-pitcher-for-yankees.html

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Updated: 9:05 am CST November 12, 2011

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Nov 9, 2011 – Former Cleveland Indians catcher and current Indians bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr. interviewed for the Boston Red Sox manager position today, Nov. 9.

Although Alomar does not boast any direct managerial experience, he is on the short list of candidates to replace the departed Terry Francona for Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington .

“He didn’t know who I was, in ’98 with Cleveland,” said Cherington, who is now the Red Sox general manager and leading the search for a new manager in Boston. “But I saw him in the clubhouse—I was in the clubhouse all the time—and I saw the leader he was back then, the respect he had in that clubhouse. I’ve been sort of following him since then.”

Alomar played 20 years in the majors and was a six-time All-Star. Many of his finest moments came with the Indians in the 1990s when the team experienced great success. He debuted with the San Diego Padres in 1988 along with brother Roberto Alomar, who was inducted to Hall of Fame in 2011, and the two re-joined each other when Roberto joined the Indians more than a decade later in 1999. His father, Sandy Alomar, Sr., was an All-Star second baseman and coached for the San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, and Colorado Rockies.

Alomar is a hot name at the moment and is scheduled to interview with the Chicago Cubs on Nov. 11.

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Red Sox to interview Sandy Alomar

By TOM WITHERS

AP Sports Writer

CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Indians have given Boston permission to interview bench coach Sandy Alomar to be the next manager of the Red Sox .

Alomar recently completed his second season coaching first base for Cleveland manager Manny Acta. He was promoted to bench coach on the final day of the season by Acta when Tim Tolman stepped down because of Parkinson’s Disease.

Alomar has no managerial experience, and would be considered a longshot to replace Terry Francona, who was fired after the season.

A six-time All-Star catcher with the Indians, Alomar has also been considered for managerial openings in Toronto and with the Chicago White Sox.

On Wednesday, the Red Sox interviewed Milwaukee hitting coach Dale Sveum. He managed the Brewers for the final 12 games of the 2008 regular season and the playoffs after Ned Yost was fired.

Updated November 3, 2011