Hall explained that the team's top brass were dissatisfied with the team's on-field results and were looking to LaRussa to right the ship. He replaced him with Dave Stewart , his former pitching ace for the Athletics, also bringing on DeJon Watson as Vice-President for baseball operations, on September 25th and the next day fired manager Kirk Gibson and bench coach Alan Trammell , although he asked Trammell to stay on as interim manager for the team's final three games.
On October 13th , he introduced Gibson's replacement, Chip Hale , who had formerly been Oakland's bench coach and had previously been a coach with the D-Backs.
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In , he came into the broadcasting booth to argue with Pirates announcer Greg Brown about comments Brown had made about LaRussa's teams using retaliatory pitches to hit batters. That season was terrible for Arizona, who thought they would be competitive after signing P Zack Greinke to a huge contract in the off-season, but ended up just a game out of last place. Both Hale and Stewart were fired at the end of the year, and LaRussa lost control of baseball decisions to team President Hall, who relegated him to an adviser role.
With him pretty much sidelined, the Diamondbacks had their best season in years in , and a few days after the team was eliminated from the postseason, it was announced that he was leaving the organization. Away from the diamond, LaRussa is also an attorney. He graduated from Florida State's law school in , and passed the bar exam the next year. LaRussa's biography at mlb. This is not true, though, as Judge Fuchs is not in the Hall. LaRussa's election to Cooperstown was a foregone conclusion from the time he stepped down.
On December 9 , , on his first appearance on the Veterans Committee 's ballot, he was elected unanimously, as were his exact contemporaries Torre and Cox. Another of LaRussa's interest is supporting animal shelters. His interest in the topic began when he picked up a stray cat roaming around the Oakland Coliseum in , with the thought of giving it to a local animal shelter. However, he realized the cat would be euthanized if he did so, so he adopted it and established the Animal Rescue Foundation, whose aim is to give a home to animals who would otherwise be put to death.
He and his wife financed the construction of a compound in Walnut Creek, CA where the animals are kept and matched with potential owners, including returning veterans animal companionship has proved to be effective in easing the symptoms of post-traumatic stress. He himself has 17 cats at home, each of which has a name. The basis of Moneyball is very important [ Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction?
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Players and fans love him or hate him, so it's surprising that although the season will mark his 30th anniversary in a major league dugout, nobody really knows much about him or his life. In this first full and authorized biography of La Russa, author Rob Rains goes behind the scenes to learn the influences behind La Russa's intensity and uncompromising focus, why winning every game possible is so important to him, and why he often puts the game ahead of his private and personal life. Combining new interviews with past and current players, managers, and executives--including LaRussa himself--with intensive research through newspapers, magazines, and other archive material, Rains reconstructs La Russa's life from his days as a young boy growing up in Tampa, where he spoke Spanish before he spoke English, to his current standing as the third-winningest manager in baseball history.
La Russa made his ascent to major league managing in at the age of 34, taking over Bill Veeck's Chicago White Sox after managing only games in the minor leagues, spread over two seasons. He has been in a major league dugout ever since, except for 13 days in between when he was fired by the White Sox and hired by the Oakland A's. This biography delves into both baseball and private subjects with the goal of delivering to the reader an accurate and unbiased portrayal of La Russa.
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Did not always agree with his management style but sure miss him now. Apr 15, Philip rated it it was amazing. A true genius great book even better manager.
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