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...Walt Alston are two of only four major league managers ever to spend 20 years or more with one team. In comparison, since Lasorda began his reign as manager, the New York Yankees have made 18 managerial changes. The manager with the longest current tenure is Pittsburgh's Jim Leyland, who joined the Pirates in 1986. Josh Dubow Time : up to date Olympics coverage...
...confidence of a pennant contender. After all, the black-capped Pirates have won more games than any other team in the 1990s and, in Sisyphean fashion, came within one agonizing out of making it to last year's World Series. Instead, leaning against the batting cage, Pirate manager Jim Leyland talked bravely about "looking forward to the new challenge of putting this team together." The sad truth is that the proud Pirates have been decimated by the exodus of free agents...
...SCORECARD AP PLAYER OF THE YEAR AND MANAGER OF THE YEAR MANAGER OF THE YEAR Bobby Cox, Atlanta 91 Tom Kelly, Minnesota 49 Jim Leyland, Pittsburgh 15 Joe Torre, St. Louis 13 Sparky Anderson, Detroit 6 Tom Lasorda, Los Angeles 1 Jim Lefebvre, Seattle...
...drop the word steel from its name. After considering more than 200 possibilities, including Amcor and USSA, the company decided to call itself USX because its symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is X. In London, BL, the financially struggling government-controlled auto group formerly known as British Leyland, said it hopes to spruce up its image by renaming itself the Rover Group...
IMAGINE HOW pleased a sports car afficionado would be if British Leyland brought back one of those wonderful spoke a wheeled MG's and included better mileage to boot Similar ecstasy has arrived for any person who cares a wit about baseball in the form of a revised edition of Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. Moreover, the best book ever written about the grand old game also appeals as a vivid depiction of a fascinating slice of American culture...