You know you’ve made it when you can just leave your World Series rings any ol’ place.
Ladies and gentlemen, Tony La Russa has made it.
The Hall of Fame manager (798 of his 2,728 wins came with the A’s) earlier this month participated in a first-pitch ceremony in Boston, where he is a vice president for the Red Sox. Now 73, La Russa understandably doesn’t pack a glove every time he visits the yard. So he borrowed the glove of Red Sox relief pitcher Joe Kelly Jr.
He then caught the ceremonial pitch from Roland Hemond, a former Chicago White Sox official who was instrumental in getting La Russa’s managerial career off the ground.