Tony La Russa is calling on all his smarts to cope with crises on and off the field

• Redsauce

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  Read "3 Nights in August", if you can wade through the entire craptastic thing.  It'll make you realize that Tony LaRussa shouldn't be let near one of those intermural softball teams that has a keg at home plate, much less an actual Major League Baseball team.

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  • benji23

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    An entire book? This article is 11 pages, which even though interesting, is about 10 too long for my attention span.

    Posted 5/31/2007 [reply] [flag]

  • peterallen73

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    You spelled intramural wrong...Dork

    Posted 6/5/2007 [reply] [flag]

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SI.com: Dark Times for a Baseball Man
Published 5/31/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
... SI.com: Dark Times for a Baseball Man From the moment Bill Veeck tapped him as Chicago s skipper at 34 in 79, La Russa was viewed by some as an impostor. His big league playing career? A .199 batting average in 132 games in six seasons spanning 10 years. His managing résumé? Running a Double A team for part of one season and a Triple A team for part of the next. Too cheap to hire a real manager! White Sox broadcaster Harry Caray said constantly of Veeck s hire, and at his worst moments La Russa suspected he was right. ... It was La Russa who came to [Jose] Canseco s defense after The Washington Post s Thomas Boswell first accused him of steroid use, in 1988. Later, when he heard that Canseco had bragged about using steroids, La Russa never told his boss, Oakland president Sandy Alderson, about it or about his suspicion that other A s less than a handful had gotten too big, too fast. I m not s

oh, crap
Published 5/31/2007 by lboros at Viva El Birdos: Front Page Posts
... if you haven't read the long profile of tony la russa at si.com, it's a very good read --- and especially interesting in light of the current dynamics of the cardinal organization. by way of commentary, i'll just pimp one of my old VEB posts, written after

The Morning Tailgate
Published 5/31/2007 at STLSportsMag
... . [Yahoo Sports] A rather excellent SI piece on the trials and tribulations of one Anthony LaRussa. [SI.com]

Yardwork: SI Hammers LaRussa (And a Feud in Cincinnati)
Published 5/31/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... St. Louis 8, Colorado 4: Albert Pujols homered. But the real story is this eye-opening piece on Tony LaRussa from Sports Illustrated (die-hard St. Louis fans are already aware of this, but it’s the first we’re reading about it). Clearly, LaRussa has issues. Between the tattoo, the DUI, the death of Josh Hancock, and the stinky Cardinals season, it hasn’t been a fun few months for LaRussa. And the fact that LaRussa hasn’t spoken to his two daughters from a previous marriage at all, and that they hauled his ass into court (it was dismissed), certainly doesn’t help matters.

Tony La Genius : “A Study In Human Pyrotecnics”
Published 5/31/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... aside.  Sports Illustrated’s SL Price considers the dark days of Cards skipper Tony La Russa.

Missouri ATC Finds No Fault In Hancock Case
Published 5/31/2007 by PostmanR at FanHouse
... As the Cardinals wrap up an atrocious May -- their worst start in 17 years, in fact -- and Tony LaRussa presumably gets greyer by the day , more news is surfacing about Josh Hancock's fatal car crash. The Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control ruled Mikes Shannon's Restaurant, the establishment where Hancock was drinking before his death,

Tony La Russa's Losing It
Published 6/7/2007 by The Feed at The Feed
... In a recent story for Sports Illustrated Tony La Russa said that he didn't feel embattled a couple of months into a very trying season. The normal travails of defending a championship have been a walk in the park compared to two drunk driving incidents, one that embarassed La Russa and one that cost pitcher Josh Hancock his life. La Russa says he doesn't feel embattled but he didn't come off that way when he chastised reporters for doing their jobs in the wake of Hancock's death and he didn't come off that way in S.L. Price's article which read like foreshadowing of La Russa's departure at the end of the season.