Tony LaRussa is returning to the major leagues in 2021 as the manager of the Chicago White Sox. As we discussed yesterday, at 76, LaRussa is very old for a major league manager — he will be the third oldest person to manage a major league team, behind only Connie Mack (who managed until he was 87, due in no small part to the fact he also owned the A’s) and Jack McKeon, who was 80 during his brief stint as the Miami Marlins manager in 2011.
LaRussa also has seemingly been around forever — he was managing the White Sox way back when I was a young, adolescent Rangers fans, and I vividly remembering him captaining the club that Doug Rader famously described as “winning ugly,” a phrase which became a rallying cry for the 1983 ChiSox.