Word: larussa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manager Tony LaRussa properly pooh-poohed the A's 8-1 record against the Giants during spring training and professed concern about the Sock Exchange. Giants manager Roger Craig, ever the optimist, pointed out that "we've got ; men who respond to challenge. We've battled back all year long." But as the series opened last Saturday, hard-eyed bookmakers in Reno made the A's odds-on favorites to win the Battle...
...Tony LaRussa's job as manager of the Chicago White Sox remained hanging by a thread yesterday after Sox management met with Billy Martin's agent, Ed Sapir, and said they would talk again today...
...rhythmic, natural. In his mind, I think he's just so sure he can hit, the pitchers can strike him out, make him look foolish, and there's still that trace of a smile. He knows he's going to get them." Tony LaRussa, the manager, says, "You can't tell looking at Kittle after the game whether he struck out three tunes or had three hits. And he's played at least an average left field every night, sometimes above average...
...would have a better chance of winning both halves of the season. And if they did, the second playoff spot might go to Chicago, since it was 31-22 before the strike, while Kansas City started off with a dismal 20-30 showing. White Sox Manager Tony LaRussa and his starting players admitted that they were not above chicanery if it meant derailing the Royals. Said offseason Attorney LaRussa: "If it got to that peculiar circumstance where if you won a ball game, you lost a spot in the playoffs, then I would refuse to take the field and accept...