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Joseph Elliott Girardi (born October 14, 1964) is an American sports broadcaster and former professional baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Girardi played the catcher position for the Chicago Cubs, Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals during a big league playing career that spanned from 1989 to 2003.
Later, he authored an advice book, entitled Joe Torre's Ground Rules for Winners. [128] His third book, The Yankee Years, was released in February 2009. The book, co-authored by Sports Illustrated writer Tom Verducci, details Torre's tenure as manager of the New York Yankees. [129]
Joe Torre managed the Yankees from 1996 through 2007 and the team made the playoffs each season. He also won six American League championships and four World Series titles. His 1,173 regular season wins are second all-time among Yankees managers. He also has the most playoff appearances, playoff wins and playoff losses of any Yankee manager.
It was 25 years ago this week that Joe Torre returned to manage the 1999 Yankees, ... and Roger Clemens – Boston’s fabled, former ace – was in the visiting dugout, in his first year as a ...
New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi stands with Joan Steinbrenner during a tribute for her husband the late George Steinbrenner before a baseball spring training game against the Philadelphia ...
NEW YORK — For two former Yankees managers, the month of May wrought contrasting fortunes, leaving Buck Showalter sitting pretty in first place with the largest lead on June 1 of any Mets team ...
Joseph Vincent McCarthy (April 21, 1887 – January 13, 1978) was an American manager in Major League Baseball, most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946. The first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams (doing so with the Chicago Cubs in 1929 and the ...
Joe Torre, the legendary New York Yankees manager, walked out to the mound during the Yankees' exhibition game against the Philadelphia Phillies − and made a pitching change.