TONY LA RUSSA RUMORS
Weiss steering surprising Rockies
Talking to Walt Weiss on the phone, I could have sworn I was talking to Tony La Russa.
"I want these guys to enjoy the competition," said Weiss, the Rockies' new manager. "It might sound kind of elementary. But it's really important."
That's what La Russa was all about -- the competition. Weiss played for La Russa in Oakland at the start of his career...
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April 18, 2013
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La Russa video game funding strikes out
Tony La Russa is hitting home runs seemingly each day this off-season as he makes the pre-Holiday rounds of bookstore signings and radio interviews. By accounts, his remembrances of the St. Louis Cardinals’ 2011 World Championship season, “One Last Strike,” is very popular with baseball book-buying fans.
In the near-term at least, another of La Russa’s retirement projects...
La Russa favors post-series handshakes
As a manager, Tony La Russa was known as a fierce competitor, never willing to give his opponents an inch, while constantly seeking methods to motivate his players.
Having retired from his post leading the St. Louis Cardinals after the 2011 World Championship season, the 68-year-old is now a special assistant to Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig. Perhaps that has led to...
BUSINESS SENSE
La Russa doesn't like long contracts
Former A's and Cardinals manager Tony La Russa shared his thoughts on long-term contracts, and he really doesn't believe in them.
SEEING RED
Tony La Russa fires back at Dusty Baker
Dusty Baker thinks the former Cards skipper left two Reds players off the All-Star roster because of the bad blood between the two teams, but La Russa says that simply is not true.
Could it be déjà vu for the 2012 Cardinals and trading?
Long-time St .Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is gone, but several of his club’s key needs from 2011 have resurfaced this season. So might the method to address them.
La Russa had made public his frustration with the man who had previously been the organization’s top prospect. Of course, I am referring to outfielder Colby Rasmus.
After some rough times, Rasmus was sent...
Coaches excited to rejoin La Russa in dugout
ST. LOUIS Tony La Russa is getting the band back together again. At least for a July night in Kansas City.
As the manager of last year's World Series champion Cardinals, the retired La Russa will manage the National League squad in the July 10 All-Star Game at Kauffman Stadium. And Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that La Russa's entire coaching staff from the...
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June 13, 2012
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Tony La Russa, future oil baron?
Since retiring from managing the St. Louis Cardinals following their 2011 World Championship, Tony La Russa hasn’t been reclining in an easy chair or tending a vegetable garden.
Among his many activities included working with one of the losing bidders for the Los Angeles Dodgers, assisting friend Jim Leyland with the Tigers during spring training and a role in the MLB commissioner’s...
La Russa leaves game -- it will never leave him
ST. LOUIS Tony La Russa was walking into history, in as much as a dimmed corridor in the bowels of Busch Stadium could serve as a setting for honoring a legend. All eras, even the most celebrated, must end. Eventually, even after a 33-year career, life must begin anew.
The former St. Louis Cardinals manager combed his fingers through his thin brown hair and approached a door....
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May 12, 2012
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SHORT RETIREMENT
Dodgers front office job for La Russa?
Reports indicate that if Steve Cohen is successful in his bid to purchase the Los Angeles Dodgers, the recently retired manager might be in line for a job in the team's front office.
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