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Baseball's Musical Managerial Chairs: Minority Hiring Weak, Richard C. Crepeau
Baseball's Musical Managerial Chairs: Minority Hiring Weak, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Over the past few weeks I have noticed a familiar phenomenon in baseball which is reflective of sport generally. The annual purge of the managerial ranks in baseball has begun after a relatively quiet regular season. The most spectacular of the regular season firings was that of Tommy LaSorda in Los Angeles although it was thinly disguised as a resignation for health reasons. Bill Russell was named interim manager and after some doubts were raised the former shortstop had the interim removed yesterday.