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Article: Wizard of the White Sox; Ozzie Guillen, as the first non-American manager in the World Series, marches to a different beat.(FEATURES)(WEEKEND)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 21, 2005
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Byline: Jim Klobuchar Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
The Chicago White Sox rejected all canons of accepted logic in 2004 and named Ozzie Guillen as their manager. The elite of America's newspaper oracles tried to be generous in their predictions. One gave Ozzie four weeks.
Another thought it was a coin flip whether he would get sued for libel or ostracized by the Friends of Peace and Quiet. Conversationally, Ozzie is a spluttering firecracker, and professionally a self-confident nonconformist.
But Saturday night, when the Sox square off against the Houston Astros, he will be the first non-American to lead his team into the World ...