[NU Sports] Girardi story/Wildcat history

[Weinbaum, Willie]

What other NU alums became MLB managers or head coaches in the pros
(NBA, AFL/NFL, NHL)?

--Paddy Driscoll, NFL (Bears) - - he was a Hall of Fame NFL player and
also played major league baseball for the Cubs!  
http://www.azcardinals.com/history/legacy.html?sid=39 &
http://www.chicagobears.com/history/hof-driscoll.jsp &
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=driscpa01

--Otto Graham, NFL (Redskins) - -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Graham

--Joe Collier, AFL (Bills) - -
http://www.jt-sw.com/football/pro/players.nsf/ID/04700001

--Rick Venturi, NFL (brief stints as head coach of Colts & Saints, well
after 1-31-1 record as head coach at NU) - - 
http://www.neworleanssaints.com/coachbio.cfm?coachid=32

Who else, if anybody?

NU, of course, has had non-alum head coaches & assistant coaches who
went on to become pro head coaches (examples: Lou Saban, Dennis Green,
Jeff Bzdelik, Kevin O'Neill).  George Steinbrenner was an NU football
assistant coach who became a pro team owner - not just of the Yankees,
but of the American Basketball League's Cleveland Pipers (they were not
at the level of the NBA, but had many interesting aspects:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/a/am/american_basketball_l
eague_1961-63.htm)

Of interest, though he didn't fit the bill...

NU's baseball coach from 1947-60, Fred Lindstrom, was a Hall of Fame
major league player, but neither an NU alum nor a manager in the big
leagues (his son, Chuck, played for NU & made it to the majors) - - 
http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/lindstromfred.shtml &
http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lindsfr01.shtml

Parting notes...

Jay Hook achieved notoriety with the original Mets:
http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/H/Hook_Jay.st
m & http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hookja01.shtml

A site that claims to list all NU players who made it to the majors:
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/college/northwestern_university_baseball
_players.shtml

One of the great baseball quotes came from George McKinnon, the longtime
NU baseball coach.  He said, after an opponent scored a double-figure
rout of the Cats (not a rare occurrence), "their balls had eyes."