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Francona manages the final games of his illustrious 23 years as a manager this week for the Guardians, his legacy will be recalled fondly in every corner of.
Terry "Tito" Francona was a first baseman and outfielder in the majors from 1981 to 1990.
He headed a Single-A club in 1992 and thoroughly impressed all of the White Sox roving instructors with his work ethic and easy style of.

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Remembering Terry Francona's Boston years

September 28th, 2023

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Before he turned into the scooter-wheeling Terry Francona who provided a lot of wins and perhaps even more laughs in Cleveland, the man known as “Tito” throughout the baseball world planted the seeds for his likely Hall of Fame managerial career in the pressure-cooker of Boston.

So as Francona manages the final games of his illustrious 23 years as a manager this week for the Guardians, his legacy will be recalled fondly in every corner of Red Sox Nation.

When Francona was hired by the Red Sox prior to the 2004 season, the Red Sox hadn’t won a World Series in 86 years.

That drought ended, fittingly, in Francona’s first year at the helm. The Sox won it all under Francona again in ’07, sweeping the Rockies in the Fall Classic just as they swept the Cardinals in ’04.

Keep in mind that Francona came to Boston as an unproven manager who finishe

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Terry Francona didn’t talk about OPS numbers on Friday after he was fired in Boston. He didn’t talk about Pythagorean winning percentages or range factors or runs created or win shares. He didn’t talk about Bill James or Billy Beane or sabermetrics, the cult that now runs baseball. Francona essentially spoke of how the men on the field playing the game for the Red Sox this past September weren’t enough of a team when their season exploded all over the American League East.

This is what Francona, the son of an old player named Tito Francona, said:

“I wanted desperately for our guys to care about each other on the field. I wasn’t seeing that as much as I wanted to. When things go bad, your true colors show and I was bothered by what was showing. It’s my responsibility.”

Oh, there were bad numbers in Boston all right, and not just the 7-20 record that ended Boston’s season, one of the most stunning reversals of fortune in the history of baseball in Boston or anywhere else. The starting pitchers seemed to give up five or six run

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Review of 'Francona' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This book is unfortunately much more of a Shaughnessy book than a Francona book. It is told by Shaughnessy, with liberal sprinkles of quotes by Francona. It tells of Francona's rise in the major leagues, what he learned from having a life in the big leagues (as his dad was a big leaguer too), and as a manager for the Phillies.

Then it gets to the "Red Sox Years" and tells of the magical 2004 season, through the last ugly year of 2011, at a chapter a year clip. Shaughnessy tells of the machinations and perturbations behind the scenes, and Francona chips in with quotes about how he saw things.

Unfortunately, it all ends badly and Shaughnessy isn't afraid to revel in it. He loves to say things like "and they wouldn't be back in the playoffs for the rest of Tito's time there" and other such portents. The last …

This book is unfortunately much more of a Shaughnessy book than a Francona book. It is told by Shaughnessy, with liberal sprinkles of quotes by Francona. It tells of Francona's rise in th