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Article: Mike Hargrove feeling right at home.
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- Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2002
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Byline: Terry Pluto
Mike Hargrove is back in town, and it still feels like home.
It's been three years since he was fired as the Tribe's manager, yet he still has a house in Richfield. He talks about keeping it, and splitting his time between Northeast Ohio and Tucson when he retires.
That is what this area has meant to Hargrove, the last man to manage the Indians into the World Series.
"Being fired (in 1999) doesn't hurt much anymore," he said. "I won 97 games, got fired, then got another job at twice my old salary. And I lost 88 games in my first year with Baltimore, and they gave me an extension."
He says this while ...