LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Athletics manager Bob Geren often wondered whatever happened to Ty Van Burkleo, who was named Monday as the team's new hitting coach.
Geren said he recalled meeting Van Burkleo nearly 16 years ago while on a cruise off the coast of California.
"We ran into each other in the gym and I could tell he was a ballplayer," Geren said. "We started talking. I had just started the offseason and he had just returned from Japan. We talked back-and-forth for a while, but after a few years, I sort of lost track of him."
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