Mac Engel: How a former Texas Rangers bat boy came to have the single hardest job in MLB

ARLINGTON, Texas — Perry Minasian has the hardest job of any general manager in pro sports, and if anyone was trained to deal with the four-letter words that comes with his position, he was. He began his career in baseball cleaning the toilets in the visitor’s clubhouse of old Arlington Stadium, working for his dad, long, long time Texas Rangers’ clubhouse attendant, Zack Minasian. “I was 7 and the bat boy; there weren’t child labor laws then, or, if there were, no one enforced them,” Perry said. “I cleaned the toilets for a long time; I was good at it.” On Tuesday, standing in the visitor’s d…

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