Years ago, I worked as a correspondent for The Sporting News, and part of my responsibility was to distribute the Gold Glove Award ballots to the coaching staff of the team I covered.
There were some coaches who really had a strong sense of who the best and worst fielders around baseball really were -- the third-base coaches, in particular, because it was their responsibility to know the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing players as they made decisions on whether to wave runners home. Other coaches also took the Gold Glove voting very seriously and would tell me they wanted to put some thought into their decisions and would need a couple of days to think about their final choices.
Just as often, however, this is kind of how the Gold Glove voting played out, in a roomful of coaches (I'm keeping names out of it, to protect the innocent and guilty):
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Buster Olney
