EXCLUSIVE: New Cyclones manager Tom Gamboa back in baseball
Cyclones' new skipper returns to dugout after two-year absence
Tom Gamboa had a critical life decision to make during the summer of 2011.
The then-63-year-old Minor League manager, having spent the better part of the previous four decades on and around the baseball diamond, received news that his mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and had only a few months to live.
Gamboa, who was managing the Angels’ Class-A Advanced affiliate in Inland Empire, Calif., at the time, was still a full three months away from season’s end.