Longtime major league manager Jim Leyland has been elected to the Hall of Fame, it was announced today. Leyland was elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Non-Players Committee.
Leyland spend 22 years as a manager, 11 of them with the Pittsburgh Pirates, where he led the team to three straight division titles from 1990-92, but couldn’t advance from the NLCS. Leyland left the Pirates to join the Florida Marlins in 1997, where he helmed the Marlins first World Series championship team. He stuck around for a year after Wayne Huizenga performed a sell off that stripped the team of its talent, overseeing a 54-108 campaign, then spent a year as manager over the Colorado Rockies before retiring.