Cyclones Manager Donnelly to guide NY-Penn All-Stars
Brooklyn coaching staff, five players headed to Norwich for Late-Summer Classic
Rich Donnelly intimated just last summer that All-Star Games weren’t exactly his thing.
“To tell you the truth, I’m not a big fan of All-Star Games during the season because they’re exhibition games,” Donnelly admitted last August before shipping four of his hurlers — Luis Mateo, Hansel Robles, John Mincone and Gabriel Ynoa — to the New York-Penn League’s annual late-summer classic at Mahoning Valley’s Eastwood Field.
While he was proud that his players were selected, and even prouder when they helped pitch the National League squad to an 8-1 victory that night, Donnelly, who celebrated his 67th birthday on Monday, felt the two-day break might interrupt his team’s rhythm.