Pat Gillick built it – again and again and again.
And at every stop, they came: Victories, fans and championships.
Gillick, who spent 27 years as a general manager in the big leagues, was born Aug. 22, 1937, in Chico, Calif. The son of minor league pitcher Larry Gillick and actress Thelma Daniels, Gillick began his baseball career as a left-handed pitcher. He was a member of the University of Southern California team that won the College World Series in 1958, and he pitched for five seasons in the Orioles’ minor league system.
