there were plenty of times where he could have easily decided to go do something else, but he stuck with it. 'He's been through so much in his career. 'He has so many positive qualities about him, but he's always the same guy no matter whether they're winning or losing, he takes the same mindset to the field every day,' Troy said of his father. 'I think he's a good blend of the old-school way of doing things and he's very open and gets all the new information that's out there. 'I love the fact that he's meshed because I raised him in a dugout, on a bus, on the field a long, long time ago before analytics were ever invented,' Brian said. Brian imparted lessons learned from 44 years in baseball to his son, and Troy modeled himself on his father. The time spent in ballparks together all those years ago paid off. He taught himself Spanish through the Rosetta Stone and was attracted to the Astros.' 'He knew the Braves would hire him or Dayton would if he did something with the Royals. 'He didn't want me to do anything,' Brian said. He knew he wanted to remain in baseball, but he wanted to make his own way without his father's help. The big club dealt him to the Pirates organization in 2013, and after suffering a concussion, Troy retired prior to the 2014 season. The Braves drafted Troy, a promising college ballplayer, in 2011, and he caught for multiple teams in the lower reaches of the Braves organization. I'd go home after games, and the clubhouse guy would bring him home two hours later.' 'It was always a family affair,' Brian recalled, 'Troy at batboy and care of the umpires and working the clubhouse. Troy - born in 1988, when his dad was the bullpen coach for the big-league club - rode along, serving as clubhouse attendant and bat boy as his father chased the baseball dream across the Southeast. That's tough on a family, but the Snitker crew hung together through it all.

Past our wildest dreams to get to this point to both win the pennant and get the face-off, it's something that we never could have dreamed of as a family.'Р”В«rian Snitker has managed in the Braves organization since 1982, rising methodically and continuously through the ranks all the way from A ball to the majors. 'To be in the big leagues at the same time while he's a major-league manager and I'm in the big leagues here, just that alone would be very special. 'I don't think it's anything we ever even dreamed of,' Troy said Monday.

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