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St. Louis on the Air
4:07 pm
Thu September 27, 2012

One Last Strike: Former Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa

Tony La Russa won two World Series championships as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and another with the Oakland Athletics.  He won four Manager of the Year Awards and has the third highest win total in Major League Baseball history.  Host Don Marsh talks with La Russa about his career, the current season, and his new memoir, “One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season.”

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Tony La Russa
3:52 pm
Mon March 19, 2012

Ex-Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has book deal

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Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.

Retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is ready to look back on his amazing career.

William Morrow announced Monday that "One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season," is tentatively scheduled to come out this fall. The book will be co-written by Rick Hummel, a longtime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

La Russa retired last fall after managing the Cardinals to a dramatic World Series title.

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St. Louis Cardinals / Tony La Russa
1:19 pm
Wed November 16, 2011

Cardinals' La Russa 3rd in Manager of the Year voting

Credit (UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa (R) has words for relief pitcher Octavio Dotel after the eighth inning at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on July 30, 2011. St. Louis defeated Chicago 13-5.

Kirk Gibson of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Joe Maddon of the Tampa Bay Rays have been voted Managers of the Year.

Gibson won by a wide margin in the National League and Maddon was a clear choice in the AL. The results were announced Wednesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Gibson guided Arizona to a worst-to-first finish in his first full season as a big league manager.

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