Pat Corrales had a nine-year big league career as a backup catcher, but that proved to be just the prelude to a life in the game.
Corrales had been a promising football player in high school, but he opted to play baseball coming out of Fresno, Calif. It proved to be a wise choice. Corrales made it to the majors in 1964, largely sitting on the bench during the Phillies’ September collapse that saw them squander a 6.5-game lead in the final two weeks of the
