"I hate to lose," Mr. McDonnell said in October 2008, as the Phillies marched toward their World Series championship. "But you have your mourning period, and then that's it."
Mr. McDonnell, a former Phillies coach and longtime community relations whiz, died Thursday at his home in the Mayfair section of Philadelphia. He was 89.
And while the Phillies and all who knew Mr. McDonnell mourned his loss, many of them could not help but smile as they recalled the ebullient, 5-foot-6, 130-pound dynamo.
"He was clearly a face of the franchise," David Montgomery, the Phillies president, said Thursday. "He called us all 'Coach,' but it was Maje who coached us to enjoy life and the game of baseball."
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