Word: depodesta
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...DePodesta did letter in football while at Harvard for three years before stress fractures in his legs shut down his football career as well...
...Baseball was on strike when I graduated," DePodesta recalls. "It's always tough to find work in baseball, but that made it even more difficult...
Eventually, DePodesta came across an opportunity in the Cleveland Indians' organization. The available internship in Player Development would have him chart the Major League games for scouting purposes. DePodesta jumped at the chance, and he soon was on his way to the Indians...
After the 1998 season, DePodesta was named Special Assistant to Cleveland GM John Hart, but he was on the move again before the paint on his nameplate could dry. In November of that same year, Hart called DePodesta into his office and told him the A's had called to ask permission to interview him for the Assistant GM position...
...shocked me," DePodesta remembers. "Especially considering my age [25 at the time], the fact that I didn't know Billy, and that I had just been promoted in Cleveland...