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Preston Gomez dies at 85; third-base coach when Dodgers won 1965 World Series
By Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times
4:49 PM PST, January 13, 2009

Preston Gomez, the longtime Angels scouting consultant who had been third-base
coach for the Dodgers when they won the 1965 World Series, died Tuesday, nine
months after being seriously injured in a freak accident at a Blythe, Calif.,
gas station. He was 85.

Gomez, who became the second big-league manager born in Latin America when hired
by the expansion San Diego Padres in 1969, and later managed the Chicago Cubs
and Houston Astros, died at St. Elizabeth Healthcare Center in Fullerton with
his wife, Betty, and stepdaughter, Claudia, by his side, the Angels announced.