'Win anyway': On Eddie Smith, 4 years in Longview and cherishing HBPs

Washington's new baseball coach ran his first college program on toughness and accountability.

Eddie Smith can tell you where the squirrel bridges are.

At least, he should be able to. Washington’s new baseball coach grew up in Olympia and played junior-college ball in Centralia, but his first head coaching job was in Longview, home of the Nutty Narrows, where the Lower Columbia College Red Devils have established as the premier program in the Nort…