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	Tony La Russa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Russa (often misspelled LaRussa) was signed by the Kansas City Athletics as a middle infielder prior to the start of the 1962 season.
		The games won numerous awards and featured "new" statistics selected with La Russa (and provided by prominent sabermetrics authors John Thorn and Pete Palmer) as tools for players as they managed their teams.
		La Russa and his wife Elaine are the founders of Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation, headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, which saves abandoned and injured animals as well as running programs to bring dog and cat visits to abused children, hospital patients, seniors and shut-ins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_LaRussa (1038 words)

	Tony LaRussa, Manager - St. Louis Cardinals
		Tony La Russa begins his 10th season at the Cardinals' helm after taking his 2004 team to the World Series, his fifth postseason appearance as a Cardinals skipper and 11th overall.
		Tony has guided the Cardinals to postseason appearances in five of his nine seasons with St. Louis, including three consecutive from 2000 to 2002 and four times in the past five seasons.
		His 2002 Cardinals won 97 games and Tony was named the N.L. Manager of the Year by the BBWAA after guiding the team to the N.L. Central title in an emotion-filled season.
	www.tonylarussa.com (466 words)

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		# 1 Recently, Tony LaRussa, the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, was named the National League manager of the year for the 2002 season. This is his fourth manager of the year award, an unprecedented feat.
		Tony LaRussa is now in eighth place in wins by a major league baseball manager all-time.
		Mimicking Tony LaRussa will not make you the best leader, but by studying his example, we can draw insights into behaviors that can help us improve our own leadership skills.
	instruction.bus.wisc.edu /raldag/mhr702/70221ERTEL.doc (1004 words)

	Font-Finder.com :: Three Nights in August
		LaRussa is a purist, a traditionalist -- a baseball man. He loves the game -- eats, sleeps, and breathes it -- and, like any lover, is devoted to it, tosses and turns over it, constantly thinks about it.
		First, how great Tony LaRussa is and secondly how complex managing a baseball game is. The author succeds on the first point as he fawns completly over his subject.
		For some reason, Buzz Bissinger feels that his insider scoop descriptions of Tony LaRussa need to be coupled with this weird defense of the "old-school" and a puerile attack on Michael Lewis' Moneyball and sabermetrician statheads in general-- as if the statheads didn't love the game or something.
	www.font-finder.com /book-store/0618405445/Three_Nights_in_August.html (1952 words)

	Tony LaRussa \| BaseballLibrary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LaRussa had managed less than two full seasons in the minors when he replaced Don Kessinger as the White Sox manager on August 2, 1979 at the age of thirty-four.
		LaRussa proved to be a much better manager for the A's than he had been a player.
		LaRussa was the winningest active manager in the major leagues, having compiled 1,827 victories in 22 years of managing -- good enough for 11th on the all-time list.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/L/LaRussa_Tony.stm (1033 words)

	Scout.com: Buzz Kill
		When Tony LaRussa first hit the bestseller lists, as a profile subject in George Will’s ‘Men at Work’, he later complained of the book’s over-reverential take on his job skills.
		LaRussa’s ballplayer/slacker notion makes less and less sense when you consider his further, unsupported assertion that Major Leaguers are somehow corrupted for the fact that they have “too much money and too much attention” at a young age.
		LaRussa admits as much when he lauds Albert Pujols as an exemplar of baseball character.
	stlcardinals.scout.com /2/377823.html (1484 words)

	Tony LaRussa - Baseball Fever
		LaRussa has always considered Hall-of-Famer Sparky Anderson his mentor and Anderson has apparently advised him to keep managing as long as he can - he's 60 years old and leading a team with a strong possibility of going to the World Series in this, the last year of his current contract with St. Louis.
		Thus Tony LaRussa could become eligible for the Hall as early as the 2011 election and Bobby Cox (provided he retires before the all-star break in 2006) could become eligible as early as the 2007 election.
		LaRussa is one of only five men attorney-managers in baseball history.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=19476 (802 words)

	Tony LaRussa, NL Division Series, Baseball, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TONY LaRUSSA: My thoughts are if we had the home court and we were playing Arizona, we would think they were a dangerous club to play.
		You know, if you pull the ball from left center or left in line you can hit a home run, left center, right center, the gaps, it means you hit the ball in a big part of the park, you don't get that cheap as you get in some of the new parks.
		TONY LaRUSSA: No. I think the Pujols that we saw in spring training, the first third of the season, middle third and last third, it was the same player.
	www.asapsports.com /baseball/2001nlds/100801TL.html (1681 words)

	The Enquirer - Tim Sullivan - Oct. 5, 1996
		Though his image is heavy on arrogance, the essential Tony LaRussa is a mass of insecurities.
		This is LaRussa's sixth trip to the postseason since 1983, and he has reached the playoffs with three different clubs.
		LaRussa took on his team's most popular player - much as he had done in Oakland with Jose Canseco - and prevailed for two reasons: No. 1, he was motivated by the best interests of the ballclub; No. 2, he was right.
	www.enquirer.com /columns/sullivan/1996/10/100596_ts.html (691 words)

	Kline and LaRussa put incident behind them - July 4, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After the final time in the stretch and in the heat of battle and frustration, Kline was caught flipping off manager Tony LaRussa.
		But now it is over, Tony (LaRussa) and I have discussed it and we have both put it behind us.
		LaRussa was quick to point out that Kline’s nature and talent are needed by the Cardinals.
	www.dailyitem.com /archive/2004/0704/sports/stories/05sports.htm (807 words)

	Tony LaRussa, NL Division Series, Baseball, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TONY LaRUSSA: Well, I think if we're playing somebody else it would be 14-11, but we just looked at all the left-handers that they play in the starting lineup.
		TONY LaRUSSA: Yeah, I think he's very much like he has been most of the year, and that is to get here, I mean he had a big responsibility, he pitched a bunch of big games and we won.
		TONY LaRUSSA: Well, the part about beating Johnson is not an advantage, because I don't think when you have success against a guy with that much talent that that's going to work on your behalf.
	asapsports.com /baseball/2001nlds/100901TL.html (1266 words)

	Tony LaRussa and the Search for Significance -- The Hardball Times
		Obviously, LaRussa has other information at his disposal with which to make his decisions, including an understanding of Carpenter’s repertoire and the voluminous charts that pitching coach Dave Duncan keeps, as mentioned by Bissinger and detailed by George Will in Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball.
		Also strategy (the reason LaRussa has his cards after all) dictates that extreme matchups be avoided both by the offense and defense through the use of relief specialists and pinch hitters.
		Even at the.08 threshold that still means that on average less than one out of 17 of the matchups (given three years of data) written on LaRussa’s index cards each game are relevant in the sense that they may reveal information that the calculated expected average doesn't (at least in terms of batting average).
	www.hardballtimes.com /main/article/tony-larussa-and-the-search-for-significance (3546 words)

	Baseball, Music, and Real Life: February 2005
		LaRussa has carefully claimed that he did not know, at the time, that Canseco was taking them, but that by the early 90s, the manchild outfielder’s behavior had changed.
		LaRussa has taken on the role of defender of McGwire, and by extension the organizations he has been involved with, under his own volition, and he has just as much to gain or lose from all of this as any of the players involved under his watch.
		If he is, that’s damning evidence that LaRussa either willingly had his head in the sand about the whole business, or that he was thoroughly unaware of what his own star player was doing to the bloodstreams of several of his teammates.
	stuartshea.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_stuartshea_archive.html (4368 words)

	Mileur Defends LaRussa?
		Because Mileur is coming to the defense of Tony LaRussa, the same manager he would have fired, three different times last season.
		So apparently LaRussa isn’t quick with the hook as we believe and maybe he isn't over managing by comparison.
		A slow hook is a pitcher allows more than seven or more runs or whose combined innings and runs totaled 13 or more. LaRussa is right in the middle of the pack among NL Managers with nine, so it appears he will let you pitch.
	thestlcardinals.homestead.com /mileurdefendslarussa.html (500 words)

	Cards sweep Bucs - PittsburghLIVE.com
		In the top of the ninth inning, LaRussa shouted at Pirates reliever Mike Gonzalez after a pitch to Tony Womack came in chin-high and tight.
		LaRussa admitted McClendon had a right to be upset but did not back down for berating Gonzalez.
		Gonzalez was insulted by LaRussa's taunts from the dugout.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/sports/s_197282.html (827 words)

	ESPN.com: MLB - Scioscia, La Russa voted managers of the year
		St. Louis manager Tony La Russa had to overcome even more difficulties, tragedies that struck the Cardinals off the field, and won his record fourth Manager of the Year award, his first in the NL.
		La Russa's Cardinals won their division during a season in which the team was traumatized by the deaths of pitcher Darryl Kile and longtime broadcaster Jack Buck.
		Tony La Russa is a 4-time manager of the year.
	espn.go.com /mlb/news/2002/1106/1456804.html (813 words)

	BaseballTruth.com Archive Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bobby Cox and Tony LaRussa have taken their teams to the playoffs a number of times since James' book was written.
		LaRussa's team just swept the Arizona Diamondbacks and have an opportunity to win a fourth pennant (and first in the National League) for LaRussa; and potentially a World Series.
		So while the remainder of the 2002 playoffs will determine whether or not Cox or LaRussa add any more to their career totals this year, there is no one else on the managerial horizon who can crack the top 25 in the next several years.
	www.baseballtruth.com /cycle/cycle_100802.htm (1133 words)

	The Chat
		Tony LaRussa came out and said, 'Dennis DeYoung!' and I said 'Tony LaRussa!' He took me into his office, we talked for about an hour and we just liked each other.
		Tony's already asked me who am I going to root for.
		So when it's over, if the Cardinals win, I'll tell him, 'I was rooting for you the whole time.' Here's what I thought about doing: When Tony won the division championship with the White Sox in 1983, he gave me his jersey.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/16/AR2005101600784_pf.html (977 words)

	Groupstores - Books Three Nights in August (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As this book proves, he's built his success on the conviction that ballgames are won not only by the numbers but also by the hearts and minds of those who play.
		Using his unlimited access to Tony LaRussa and the Cardinals, Buzz Bissinger takes us inside the fundamental unit of a baseball season: the three-game series.
		If you believe that Tony LaRussa invented baseball, this is the book for you.
	books.groupstores.com /Books/Subjects/Sports/Store-ATVPDKIKX0DER/Item-0618405445.aspx (1902 words)

	Athletics Nation :: How Good is Tony LaRussa?
		LaRussa won only 16 games more than projected over his entire career, which suggests that he is actually an average manager.
		sometimes i wonder abt you..lol when larussa came to oakland it was larussa who got eck and moved him to the pen, it was larussa who wanted stew...it was larussa etc etc.....at least in oakland it was larussa...
		LaRussa was a genius when he put Eck in the pen and salvaged Stew - a pitching genius.
	www.athleticsnation.com /story/2005/2/10/13508/0691 (2202 words)

	STL Outsider: 07/01/2004 - 07/31/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But if LaRussa can't explain to Suppan and his teammates that seven walks and 75 pitches in three inning is too much, regardless of the big lead, then what exactly is he doing managing a baseball team?
		Late in spring training, Tony Womack was a no-risk pickup for the St. Louis Cardinals.
		To this point Tony Womack obviously has done the job, as he's well ahead of what any projection said he'd do.
	stloutsider.blogspot.com /2004_07_01_stloutsider_archive.html (1310 words)

	Tony LaRussa, NL Division Series, Baseball, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He's the kind of guy that you can fear the most when a guy is in scoring position to put it in play somewhere.
		TONY LaRUSSA: I'm not a betting man, but 16 innings, two runs, and you would have thought he would have won both.
		Q. Tony, in the playoffs you've had a lot of pitchers respond Stewart, when you were with Oakland; Morris, here.
	www.asapsports.com /baseball/2001nlds/101401T2.html (460 words)

	Tony LaRussa, Division Series, Baseball, ASAP Sports FastScripts, Interviews, Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TONY LaRUSSA: Well, I think we are in a great position, because we have three guys that we feel could play there and we can win with.
		TONY LaRUSSA: The four clubs in it are very tough to play against; we are one of the four.
		I can use impressive, he is so impressive with, just everything about him that, that, I mean, 20 is something that he earned, that is a legitimate number for him.
	www.asapsports.com /baseball/2000nlds/100200TL.html (1989 words)

	USATODAY.com - La Russa embodies Cardinals' winning ways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Said LaRussa, "It is better in the course of a season to bring up a minor league pitcher to start a game where you are strung out for pitching then to use a regular starter on a short turnaround.
		LaRussa and Dave Duncan have been together as manager and pitching coach since 1986 in Oakland.
		What makes such a system work is the fact LaRussa is a manager you want in the meetings if you are the owner or GM.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/columnist/thorne/2005-04-21-thorne_x.htm (969 words)

	Tony LaRussa 3: 1996 Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the best releases in the Tony LaRussa family came with what promised to be an improvement to Old-Time Baseball.
		The packaging is the same as Tony LaRussa 3 and the only way to tell the two games apart from one another was to look at the CD.
		As always this was a "feature" that needed to be improved, but given the horrible product produced in Tony LaRussa 4 I guess you'd learn to live with it.
	home.wi.rr.com /wisconsinracing/tonylarussa.html (1022 words)

	Sportz Tawk: Newz Forum - OTHER: The Sports Curmudgeon on Tony LaRussa, Sammy Sosa, Jayson Williams plus more... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It seems to me that Tony LaRussa is walking a tightrope here and I'm not sure why he is doing it.
		Remember that in addition to being a baseball manager, LaRussa is an attorney and is therefore an officer of the court.
		With the Canseco book out there, all he had to do was keep his mouth shut and say only that he was not in the habit of checking out what happened in the bathroom stalls so he has no idea if people were shooting each other up in there.
	www.sportztawk.com /lastthreadpost10525.html (1249 words)

	Cardinal's 2002 Highlights
		To all those ready for Tony to take a hike, let me say; if the offense would have done their part the Cards would have been in the Series, period.
		To hold the team together when everything around him was falling apart indicates Tony's ability to lead and his strength as a person.
		Tony LaRussa wins NL Manager of the Year honors!!
	www.ford-mobley.com /years/2002.htm (804 words)

	Tony LaRussa, NL Division Series, Baseball, Interviews, Quotes, ASAPSports FastScripts, Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TONY LaRUSSA: Well, as it turned out, that was one of the real keys.
		And you know Mike is feeling very low, but he came in and made a nice pitch on the bunt, got out of it with Womack.
		TONY LaRUSSA: I think when you saw in the bottom of the 7th and 8th, and 9th, the spirit we've played with, we've had our heart broken a few times this year.
	www.asapsports.com /baseball/2001nlds/101201T2.html (604 words)

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