All baseball players need not necessarily be good coaches and vice versa. However in the case of Roger Alan McDowell, the former is true. While talent, hard work, right grooming, burning ambition, and good amount of luck are the factors required to make a celebrity player, the team spirit, proper mix of talents, and leadership, makes a team. The latter faculties are put into use by the players off the ground as well as a coach to produce the best talents in the chosen field.

Rogan Alan McDowell was born on December 21, 1960 in Cincinnati. He represented the Major League Baseball for 12 consecutive seasons from the year 1985 to the year 1996. He partnered with the well-known teams of the league including the New York Mets, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers. His association with the American League was with the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles. Few would forget the grace and movements of this player-turned- coach during the colorful days of his career.

This class player, a product of Bowling Green State University, who bats and throws right made his debut in the Major League on April 11, 1985 in the Final Game. The eleven years of his active playing career was known for the commitment and dedication this player exhibited throughout, irrespective of the team with which he partnered. His farewell game was on August 14, 1996 in his final game of the Major League.

The Atlanta Braves hired this player as a pitching coach for their team in October 2005, an incident thus replacing Leo Mazzone. A player well known and a mentor and coach matured, and committed McDowell was known to wear Kilts off the field. Many a record is waiting to be bettered by his staff in the coming years under his stewardship in the Atlanta Braves.