CLEVELAND, Ohio – The crusty manager Leo Durocher famously said, “Nice guys finish last.” When talking about Jeff Torborg, that maxim could not have been more wrong.

In an era of too much ink and internet time doled out on the world’s countless yahoos and wackadoodles, filmmaker Matt Flesch’s recently released documentary, “Jeff Torborg: A Wonderful Baseball Life,” shines a positive spotlight on the former big-league player and manager who died in January of Parkinson’s. He was 83.

Flesch takes a chronological approach, taking the viewer from Torborg’s love affair with his wife, Suzie, to catching Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and Don Drysdale’s scoreless streak. He pulled the best out of his pitchers, who stood up for him. He was the first person to truly analyze Nolan Ryan’s delivery – a

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