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Article: La Russa, Leyland have a long history.(baseball managers Jim Leyland and Tony La Russa)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- October 20, 2006
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Byline: Jim Salisbury
PHILADELPHIA _ The careers and lives of World Series managers Jim Leyland and Tony La Russa are wound together as tightly as the yarns inside a baseball.
Follow the bouncing ball.
They managed against each other in the minor leagues in the late 1970s. Respect was forged and a friendship took root.
When La Russa was manager of the Chicago White Sox, he hired Leyland to be his third-base coach from 1982 to 1985.
Night after night, long after the players had gone home, the two men would sit and dissect the games, stretching their baseball brains and imaginations as far as they'd go.
Leyland went on ...