ATLANTA -- Walt Weiss spent some of his early post-playing days guiding a Denver youth football team to a national title. He later served as both the head coach and offensive coordinator for Regis High School’s JV football team.

On Friday nights, he would be on the sidelines or in the press box assisting with the varsity team.

But as Regis prepared for the 2012 playoffs, Weiss missed a couple practices to interview to become the Rockies' manager.

“I couldn’t tell anybody why I wasn’t at practice,” Weiss said. “Most of those kids just viewed me as a football coach. They didn’t even know I had played baseball.”

Well, they soon learned about their coach’s past when he unexpectedly became a big league manager for the first time.

“I got asked to do an interview [with the Rockies], and I sa

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