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Tony LaRussa

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Deliberately Losing

By Coach Tully ⋅ January 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

With all the talk of NFL teams resting their stars to keep them from injury entering the playoffs, critics have raised the issue of integrity.
What happened in the NFL the last two weeks is nothing compared to a controversy during the 1981 baseball season. Two big-league managers — Tony LaRussa and Whitey Herzog — said [...]

Controlling What You Can

By Coach Tully ⋅ September 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals hit two more home runs, prompting a reporter to ask Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa if Pujols deserves to be voted this year’s Most Valuable Player.
Answered LaRussa, “Those kinds of questions are distractions, and I don’t answer them.”
Though the reporter probably didn’t appreciate LaRussa’s response, it reflected the [...]

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