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Article: Old Pro Felipe Alou To Guide Giants
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- November 14, 2002
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ To handle their veteran team, the San Francisco
Giants turned to an old pro: Felipe Alou. The 67-year-old Alou became
the oldest manager to take over a club since Casey Stengel four decades
ago. Not that Alou was worrying about his age after the National League
champions hired him Wednesday to replace Dusty Baker.
"I'm a soldier of this game," said Alou, who played for San Francisco
in the 1950s and '60s. "The matter of energy and enthusiasm, somebody
else is going to have to evaluate that."
Stengel was 71 when the New York Mets lured him out of retirement
in October 1961 to manage them the next year in their ...