Lee Elia, who managed the Cubs in 1982 and 1983, passed away Wednesday, a week before he would have turned 88.
The Cubs issued the following statement:
I’ll just get this out of the way right now. Here’s a link to Elia’s famous rant in April 1983 (NSFW!), which I’m not going to embed — if you want to hear it, go to the link.
Lee Elia was so much more than that as a baseball man. A native of Philadelphia, he played college ball at the University of Delaware and signed with his hometime Phillies in 1958.