The Nice List, Angels style. Who made the cut?

#8 – Bengie and Jose Molina –

It’s very rare that two brothers play on the same team at the same time and play the same position.  It’s even more rare when that duo is part of a World Series Championship.  That is exactly what Bengie and Jose Molina got to do in 2002 when the Angels won their only World Series.

That season at different times I was able to get both the Molina brothers autographs and pictures with them on Autograph Sunday’s that the Angels used to have.  They both always took their time with each person that the interacted with including me and a couple of my friend’s sons.

On game days that year I brought a few of my students from the private Christian elementary school where I taught.  These students were silent auction winners and wanted to meet some Angel players. Both the Molina brothers were always willing to come over and take pictures with them, sign autographs and answer baseball questions the kids had.  They never made you feel like you were bothering them.

Flash-forward to 2019, I asked Jose Molina, who is now a coach on the Angels staff, for an interview about the team and the current catching situation and he took five to seven minutes with me and was just as nice and friendly as I had remembered him to be when he played for the Angels.  The whole Molina family including younger brother Yadier Molina are nothing but class and it has been a pleasure to get to talk with them and watch them play.