Biography
Albert Samuel Nipper (born April 2, 1959) is an American Major League Baseball scout and a former pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians. Nipper pitched for the Red Sox from 1983 to 1987, the Cubs in 1988 and the Indians in 1990. He finished with a career record of 46-50 and a 4.52 earned run average. Nipper graduated from Hazelwood West High School in Hazelwood, Missouri and Truman State University in Kirksville (formerly Northeast Missouri State University). Nipper has been a scout and coach for Major League clubs since the mid-1990s. He has been the MLB pitching coach of the Red Sox (mid-1995 through mid-1996) and the Kansas City Royals (2001-02). He served as the Red Sox' bullpen coach in 2006, although he spent much of that season as the team's interim pitching coach because of the surgery-induced absence of Dave Wallace. Nipper has also held roving minor league pitching instructor posts for Boston and the Texas Rangers. Nipper is a close friend of pitcher and former Red Sox teammate Roger Clemens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Nipper
