Chad Bradford retired coach Mississippi

Chad Bradford retired coach Mississippi

Chad Bradford retired coach Mississippi, Now: Retired in Mississippi. Bradford, played by Casey Bond in the movie, pitched for several other teams after 2002, including in the 2008 AL champion Tampa Bay Rays. He retired after elbow surgery and is an assistant coach for his son Keller's high school team.Bradford is looking forward to seeing "Moneyball," but has some trepidation.

"I just wonder how it will play out on screen," he said. "Are the players going to look like they know what they're doing? Or is our 2002 team going to look like the Bad News Bears? I know that team we had in 2002, we felt if we played our game, we can win. We weren't the Bad News Bears. We maybe didn't have a lot of five-tool players or guys that threw 98 (mph), but we knew we could win."

Any tension between Beane and Howe was minimal, as far as the players were concerned, though it's played up in the movie trailer. "I think in the course of a six-month season, Art and Billy probably butted heads 10 or 15 times, no big deal," Bradford said. "It wasn't every day. And Art was such a nice man, and he and Billy and Paul all just wanted to win."

Source: sfgate