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Torre established a Major League record by guiding his clubs to 14 consecutive World Series wins from Game Three of the 1996 World Series through Game Two of the 2000 championship. He became the second manager to guide his club to 12 consecutive postseason appearances, [ 52 ] with Bobby Cox having led the Braves to 14 straight postseason ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers season featured the Dodgers celebrating their Golden Anniversary in Southern California under new manager Joe Torre as they won the National League West for the first time since 2004, and returned to the postseason after missing the playoffs in 2007.
The Yankees allowed Torre, who won four World Series titles during his tenure in the Bronx, to come out from the dugout and take out starter Carlos Rodon following Rodon's 5 2/3 innings of no-hit ...
On March 10, 1999, the Yankees played two Florida exhibition split squad games. That morning, Torre summoned Cone, Joe Girardi and Paul O’Neill separately in his office about his diagnosis.
Joe Torre: Curveballs Along the Way is a 1997 American biographical drama television film chronicling Joe Torre's first year as manager of the New York Yankees when they won the 1996 World Series. It was directed by Sturla Gunnarsson , written by Philip Rosenberg, and stars Paul Sorvino as Torre.
Just because a player is performing well and his team is winning doesn’t mean he likes his coach or manager. Just ask David Wells about Joe Torre. In a recent appearance on the New York Post’s ...
Many were worried about Torre dealing with the pressure of watching his brother, but he watched from his hospital bed as Joe managed the Yankees to the World Series title the next night. [7] As in the 1958 World Series against Frank's Milwaukee Braves, the Yankees had rallied from a 0–2 deficit to win this Series, taking the next four games.