CLEVELAND, Ohio — My sister Ann sent me a text message last week that said Coach Dennis Woods had died . She reckoned I’d remember Coach Woods from my teens as a Glenville High School student. He taught gym classes and coached baseball there.

She didn’t know I had issues with Coach Woods, but I did. He didn’t pick me for a varsity spot on his baseball team even though I thought I had outperformed other 10th-graders who tried out for the squad.

I never forgave that slight — not till the past four or five years when I worked alongside him and a handful of others in an effort to resurrect baseball on the East Side.

Nobody worked harder at this task than Coach Woods, 83, the winningest baseball coach in the history of Senate athletics. He spent decades in dusty dugouts, on makeshift baseb

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