WARSAW, Poland – “I’m the winningest manager (by percentage) in Nationals’ history,” said John McLaren, with a grin, sitting in the lobby of an upscale hotel minutes from Old Town Warsaw.
It is a glorious spring morning in the Polish capital, a city of about 1.8 million whose World War II horrors are always just around the corner and enough to scare any hardened historian. But McLaren – a baseball lifer who turns 72 in September – has come to the “New York City of Eastern Europe” in his latest global journey to promote the game of baseball.