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Barstow's Famous: Dino Ebel
Dino Ebel (born March 20, 1966 in Barstow, California) is a former minor league baseball player and manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers who is currently the third base coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Ebel attended San Bernardino Valley College. He was drafted in the 27th round (365th overall) of the 1986 amateur draft by the Philadelphia Phillies, but elected to attend Florida Southern College, where he was a member of the 1988 NCAA Division II championship squad.
Ebel signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization as a free agent, and was named the Gulf Coast League Player of the Year in his 1988 season with the rookie-level GCL Dodgers. He was promoted to single-A Vero Beach in 1989, and was a member of the 1990 Florida State League champion squad. In 1991, Ebel was promoted to Triple-A Albuquerque where he served as a utility player.
In 1991 he served as a player–coach for the single-A Bakersfield Dodgers, a position he held until 1994. He served as a player–coach for the high-A San Bernardino Spirit in 1995, before coaching full-time with double-A San Antonio in 1996. He began his managing career in 1997 with San Bernardino, taking the reins of the club late in the season. He managed the rookie-level Great Falls Dodgers in 1998, compiling a 40–35 record. In 1999, he managed the single-A Yakima Bears. He returned to San Bernardino in 2000, and led the club to the California League title. He moved to single-A Wilmington the following year, where he posted a 75–63 record. In 2002, he led the double-A Jacksonville Suns to the Southern League East Division Championship and served as the club's manager until 2004.
After serving for seventeen years in the Dodgers organization in some capacity, Ebel joined the Los Angeles Angels organization in 2005 as the coach of triple-A Salt Lake, which posted a 79–65 record under his guidance. After long-time bench coach Joe Maddon left the Angels organization to manage the Tampa Bay Rays, Ebel was appointed to the major league team's coaching staff as Mike Scioscia's third base coach. As the third base coach, Ebel is known to lean to a more aggressive style of baserunning.
Ebel has compiled a career managing record of 531–496 in eight seasons.
Whatever you do Dad, don't cut it too short
'Relax,' I say, 'you'll look great. Um, your hair hair grows pretty quick doesn't it?'
When we play Scrabble we play house rules where you get 8 tiles instead of seven. And made up words are okay if you can use them convincingly. 'Now stop being such a fevroopo and play your turn.'
I say, 'Dude, you look awful.' I just picked him up at the airport. He just got off the plane after 30 yours of flying and the security guy made him wait an hour while they went through every one of his bags. 'Dad,' he says, 'I think I have malaria.' He spent the next six days in the critical care unit—which makes for a great intro to 'How I spent my summer vacation.' He is healed. I'm happy he's alive. I'm very happy.
Josh makes a fuss sometimes when I take his picture. 'You'll thank me in twenty years.' I say. It's my standard response. One of my Dad-isms. God help me, I'm turning into MY dad.' (Though, in truth, my Dad was a great guy.)
Josh is very different than me. He has a mathematical mind. He plays the piano. He's tall, brown-eyed, polite, and sports a full head of hair. How did this guy get to be my son?
He does an impression of me which doesn't sound like me at all, but it's totally me.
Josh likes to travel and is an easy mixer. We're standing in a New York subway and I turn my head for a minute and he's talking to a dead ringer for John Lee Hooker. Listening in, you'd think they were long lost buds.
Josh is a senior at New York University. He spent the last year living in Madrid, Paris, and Accra, Ghana. He speaks something like three and half languages and has been my tech-support guy for about as long as I've known him. If I could get him to pick up his socks and not crash my cars he would be the perfect child.
Our kids
Boy Michael, inviting people to talk about their kids?? You couldn't choose a better way to get some of us to say something!
Peter and I have been married almost 23 years and have two kids, Dan and Erica. When I think about what parts of my life I could have predicted in High School, the absolutely amazing experience of parenthood wouldn't have made the list. Both our kids are smart, funny, and just generally great people. They're the kind of people that you're proud to launch into the world. I still have a hard time believing that I'm old enough to have kids in college.Dan is 21 and a senior at Rensselaer Polytech Institute in upstate NY (Troy to be exact - about 15 minutes from Albany). He's a physics major (like his dad) and a music and psychology minor. He's a musician, having played Sousaphone, mellophone, and French horn in high school, and pretty much every low brass instrument in the college pep band.Erica is almost 20 and a sophomore at Kalamazoo College in (you guessed it!) Kalamazoo Michigan. She's still deciding on a major, but it's going to be some sort of International Relations/Global Development, or something like that. She's a musician like her brother, but she plays bassoon and flute. Her other big love is aerial silks and she performs with a group at school called Cirque du K.Here's a link to her performance at the beginning of this quarter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GPZK8ZAHVcBeing their mom is a privilege, and I try not to forget that even when it gets tough. Most of the time I even succeed!
