- Gary Tuck
Gary Robert Tuck (born
1954 inAmsterdam, New York ) is currently the bullpen coach for theBoston Red Sox .A graduate of
Indiana University , Tuck has 23 years of professional coaching experience. He started his baseball career as acatcher for theMontreal Expos organization and played for them during three minor league seasons. Following his playing retirement, he served as an assistant coach at theUniversity of Notre Dame in 1980, andArizona State University in 1981.After winning an
NCAA championship with Arizona State, Tuck was hired to coach for the nearbyTucson Toros , aMinor League affiliate of theHouston Astros . Tuck spent eight years in the Astros organization. In 1986 he managed the Double-AColumbus Astros to a league championshpFact|date=September 2008, winning Southern League Manager of the Year honors.By 1989, Tuck was a coach on the
New York Yankees Triple-A team. In 1990, Tuck served as bullpen coach to the Yankees. The next year he was the manager of theCleveland Indians Single-A team, a job he held before switching to a Scout for the Indians.He would rejoin the Yankees again in 1996 as their Single-A Manager. With the Yankees, Tuck won
World Series rings as the team catching instructor in 1998 and 1999. In 2006, he served as former Yankees catcherJoe Girardi 's bench coach in Florida, where he was best known for writing the lineup card incalligraphy [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hruby/061227] .In November 2006, the Boston Red Sox hired Tuck as their new bullpen coach. He joined pitching coach Jon Farrell and hitting coach
Dave Magadan as new members of the Red Sox coaching staff for the 2007 season. He earned another World Series ring as a member of Boston's 2007 championship team. Tuck also serves as an organization-wide catching instructor duringspring training .References
* [http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2006/11/the_buzz_around.html?p1=MEWell_Pos2 The Boston Globe]
* [http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20061113&content_id=1739761&vkey=pr_bos&fext=.jsp&c_id=bos Boston Red Sox news]
* [http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061113&content_id=1739804&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb MLB.com]
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