Baseball Career
A native of Buffalo, New York, Ozark was a minor league first baseman who spent his playing career (1942; 1946–1961; 1963) in the labyrinthine Brooklyn Dodgers farm system. He batted and threw right-handed. In 1956, Ozark became a playing manager with the Dodgers' Class B Wichita Falls farm club (Big State League) and rose through their system in succeeding years all the way to the AAA level, winning a division championship with the 1963 Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League.
In 1965, he came to the Major Leagues — and the Los Angeles Dodgers — as a coach for Walter Alston. Ozark served eight years (1965–72) on Alston's staff until his hiring as manager by the last-place Phillies in October 1972.
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