![]() I just stick my head in and yell GET OUTTA THERE." The subject of three seconds in the lane came up. Once he was sitting in Haskins' old office up the tunnel in what is now the Don Haskins Center, talking basketball. He always officiated UTEP's early basketball scrimmages but he never refereed UTEP regular season games because of his friendship with Don Haskins and also because he and his wife Cookie lived in El Paso for many years. More: Diablos Days evoke wonderful memories of Dudley Dome He was good because he was also a coach or sometimes the MGR and he understood how to work with coaches and how to work with athletes. Moose was also a prominent Division 1 basketball official. One unknowing member from another media outlet once called Moose "coach" and quickly got that scowl and that harsh and blunt New York, "I'm not the bleeping coach, I'm the bleep bleep MGR." But you never, never call a baseball manager a coach. While he was always funny and colorful, he was no nonsense around the diamond. Before all that, he managed Edmonton to the Triple-A Pacific Coast League Championship in 1984. He finished with five major league at-bats.īut he was a baseball lifer - long time third base coach for the California Angels, long time scout for the Angels. His professional baseball career never really worked out. He was a home run slugger in that very Dudley Field for the old El Paso Sun Kings in the early 1960s. More: El Paso sports legend Moose Stubing has died He was All-New York City in football, basketball and baseball and he turned down a football scholarship to Penn State to sign a professional baseball contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The man had been an exceptional athlete as a boy. Moose would always tell you everything you needed to know and his delivery was forever the same - blunt and colorful. In that big booming voice, flowing with the New York accent, he boomed, "Billy, what the bleep do you need?"Īnd then he began to talk, to tell me about the team and there was really no need to ask questions. It was a new year, a new season, a new beat writer. Stubing was just a year off managing El Paso's Diablos to the 1978 Texas League championship. Our first meeting was almost 40 years ago, down under old Dudley Field. ![]() And the man's passing is like pressing an imaginary button, a button that gently nudges back time and, with it, brings back stories and laughter. El Pasoans were saddened at the passing of the colorful sports figure Friday night. ![]() His voice was booming and his language was every bit as colorful as he was.Įveryone who knew Larry "Moose" Stubing has Moose Stubing stories. Watch Video: 'Diablos Days' brings memories of old team ![]()
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