IMPACT
IMPACT
LONGEVITY
LONGEVITY
BASEBALL
REMEMBERS
BUZZIE
BASEBALL
REMEMBERS
BUZZIE
“Buzzie Bavasi is the top man in his trade. It isn’t often that ballplayers rave about a front-office figure, but they are nuts about Buzzie. He is their confidant, counselor and friend.”
—Arthur Daley in The New York Times, 1963
“Buzzie is a guy with great integrity. He has a good sense of humor and he’s a very warm person. He has a lot of character. And it’s pretty obvious from what the Dodgers have done what kind of general manager he is.”
—Chub Feeney, San Francisco Giants GM, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, 1967
“The formula for baseball success is simple: If the GM is good, the team is, too. If he’s not, fourth place here we come. It’s not easy. A baseball general manager has to be shrewd, manipulative, sensitive and thick-skinned at the same time, as was Buzzie Bavasi. One of the best.”
—Jim Murray in the Los Angeles Times, 1987
“Buzzie always remained more than a friend—he was an advisor—and I still think of him quite often. He was one of the kindest and most benevolent of men. Was Buzzie good for baseball? That’s an easy one to answer.”
—Mike Port, former GM, California Angels and Boston Red Sox