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"Maybe the good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes." When Joe Torre was fired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1995, he thought his career in baseball was over. After more than three decades and 4,200 games as a player and manager, one thing had always eluded... read more

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IN THE COOL OF A BREEZY OCTOBER Sunday afternoon, I sat next to my mother in the upper deck of Milwaukee County Stadium-between home plate and third base-as my brother Frank prepared to bat in the fourth game of the 1957 World Series against the New York Yankees.

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  1. Joe Torre (Author)

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  1. autobiography
  2. sports
  3. yankees 
 

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