Lake County Sentinel
Indians Special Assistant Dave Wallace balances love of baseball and family
BY TIM SHIRER
CAPTAINS BEAT WRITER
(EASTLAKE, OH) - Recently prior to a Lake County Captains game at Classic Park I sat down and talked with former Captains manager (2012) and current Cleveland Indians Special Assistant Dave Wallace.
When you talk with Wallace it becomes apparent, very quickly where his priorities are. For Wallace family is and always will be first.
Wallace, signed with the Indians as a non-drafted free agent out of Vanderbilt in 2001 and played in the Indians organization from 2002 to 2007. Wallace served as an assistant to the Indians coaching staff in 2009, 10. Wallace then became a manger in the Indians minor league system from 2011 to 2016 when he stepped down from his job as manager of the Akron RubberDucks.
Wallace explained that the large amounts of time he spent away from his family was just not something he wanted to continue. He said that from the time the season ended for the RubberDucks and the Indians World Series run ended he was away from his family for 55 days and that's what helped him make the decision that he did not want to be away from his family, wife Lauren, his son who is five and his daughter who is seven for such a long period of time.
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POSTED 05/14/2018 21:33
Photo by Ben Zedner
Cleveland Indians Special Assistant Dave Wallace circa 2012 as Lake County Captains Manager.
