“ Maddon also keeps baseball in perspective and likes to relay something told to him by team traveling secretary Jeff Ziegler, a former St. Petersburg, Fla., police officer. “He told me that when he was on the police force they would treat their work like fun and games when it was really life and death. He said he was surprised when he came to baseball and found that people treated it like life and death when it’s fun and games. I try to remember that,” Maddon said.
