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Article: La Russa Manages to Do It His Way
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 30, 1989
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The smart guys are on top and Tony La Russa is leading the
parade. They said that a hot-tempered lawyer who hung out with
rock-and-roll bands, wore his hair a little long and couldn't hide
his hipness would never be a great major league manager. He'd be too
close to his players in age and taste, too sensitive to their
emotions, too quick to blow a gasket, too full of psychobabble and
sabermetrics ever to get to the very peak. Last October, some said,
"See."
But now La Russa's Oakland A's are not only the champions of the
world but threaten to hang that awful "D" word (dynasty) around their