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Chattanooga Lookouts manager Razor Shines still brings “energy” every day in his 50th decade in professional baseball, his players say, and he will direct the North squad in the Southern League All-Star Game next Tuesday night at Chattanooga’s AT&T Field.Anthony Razor Shines is the oldest manager to guide the Chattanooga Lookouts through a Southern League season.
Ask any Lookouts player, however, and Shines is far more 27 than 57.
“Razor still has the 20-year-old mindset in him,” Lookouts first baseman O’Koyea Dickson said. “We build off his energy every day, and it’s something all of us look forward to. He understands what the grind is, because he’s been through it. He’s played in the minor leagues and the big leagues, too, so he knows what it takes to get there.
“The best thing about Razor is just the energy he brings to the park every day. He wants you to get better and cares for everybody.”
Shines has been in professional baseball for five decades, beginning with the Montreal Expos selecting him in the 18th round of the 1978 draft out of St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, N.C. If it were up to him, there would be five more decades on the fields and in the clubhouses.