Tony La Russa: Man on a Mission
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Heading into , his teams had been MLB's winningest team in the regular season six different times, and he had only had seven losing seasons in his 26 complete seasons as skipper.
Players and fans love him or hate him, so it's surprising that people know very little about St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa's life; this biography goes . Editorial Reviews. From the Publisher. "You don't know Tony La Russa. You think you do, but you don't. I guarantee you that what you think you know about this.
LaRussa had his foot on the brake and the vehicle was in drive. His blood alcohol content was 0.
LaRussa apologized and said he took full responsibility. In , LaRussa became the third manager to reach 2, wins in the majors, behind Mack and McGraw. In , he became the majors leagues' dean of managers, following the retirement of Bobby Cox and Joe Torre , neither of whom had managed continuously since starting out a year before LaRussa, in In May of that year, he missed a few games because of shingles, a skin ailment. Coach Joe Pettini filled in for him during the interim.
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On June 10th that year, he managed his 5,th game in the majors. Only Mack had done so before, though he was still well ahead of LaRussa at that point 7, games. He was only 35 games behind McGraw on the all-time list for games won. Left open at the time was the question of whether he would manage the National League team in the All-Star Game , or would be replaced by the Milwaukee Brewers' Ron Roenicke.
On May 11 , , the Cardinals retired his uniform number As a manager, LaRussa was a pioneer in the modern usage of relief pitchers , moving from the old "fireman" model where one top relief ace would be used in all tight situations, sometimes for multiple innings, to the " closer " model, where a pitcher is selected to pitch the 9th inning exclusively, and a supporting cast of relievers fills very precise roles 8th-inning set-up man , 7th inning set-up man, left-handed specialist to ensure a lead is nursed from the time the starting pitcher leaves the game until the closer records the final out.
He first put this system in place with the great Oakland teams of the late s that featured future Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley as closer, with Rick Honeycutt and Gene Nelson in supporting roles. He continued using that model in St. Louis, and in particular made a very large number of mid-inning pitching changes in order to seek successful lefty-on-lefty or righty-on-righty match-ups.
The model was very successful, but LaRussa's tactics were criticized for slowing down the pace of the game to a crawl in late innings. They became the standard approach used by almost every manager by the end of the s however. Another pioneering move LaRussa started was batting his pitcher 8th with the Cardinals. At first it was done to ensure that power-hitting first baseman Mark McGwire would have more men on base when he came up, but LaRussa persisted with the move afterwards depending on the personnel available to him, and was imitated by various other managers after a while.
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LaRussa's name was back in the news in mid-march of when it was rumored that he would be offered a senior executive position by billionaire hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen if his bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers from the bankrupt Frank McCourt was successful. Cohen was considered the front-runner in the competitive process, but had been criticized for not having many prominent baseball figures - aside from player agent Arn Tellem - on his team.
In the end, Cohen's bid fell well short of that made by the group led by Mark Walter and Magic Johnson. In January , his name surfaced again, this time as a leading candidate to replace Chuck Armstrong as President of the Seattle Mariners.
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Hall explained that the team's top brass were dissatisfied with the team's on-field results and were looking to LaRussa to right the ship. He replaced him with Dave Stewart , his former pitching ace for the Athletics, also bringing on DeJon Watson as Vice-President for baseball operations, on September 25th and the next day fired manager Kirk Gibson and bench coach Alan Trammell , although he asked Trammell to stay on as interim manager for the team's final three games.
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This item is a special order that could take a long time to obtain. Louis Cardinals, is truly one of the most iconic figures in baseball today. Players and fans love him or hate him, so it's surprising that although the season will mark his 30th anniversary in a major league dugout, nobody really knows much about him or his life.
In this first full and authorized biography of La Russa, author Rob Rains goes behind the scenes to learn the influences behind La Russa's intensity and uncompromising focus, why winning every game possible is so important to him, and why he often puts the game ahead of his private and personal life.
Combining new interviews with past and current players, managers, and executives--including LaRussa himself--with intensive research through newspapers, magazines, and other archive material, Rains reconstructs La Russa's life from his days as a young boy growing up in Tampa, where he spoke Spanish before he spoke English, to his current standing as the third-winningest manager in baseball history.