Happy Birthday, Jim Essian!
On January 2, 1951, James Sarkis Essian, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan. He went on to catch in parts of twelve seasons of Major League Baseball. After retiring in 1985, Essian became a coach for the Chicago Cubs. In 1991, after then-Cubs manager Don Zimmer was fired, Essian took the reigns and became the first ever (and perhaps only?) manager in baseball of Armenian heritage.
Happy birthday, Coach Essian! Remember, as George Bernard Shaw once said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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