Legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is tipping his baseball cap to another infamous MLB manager. La Russa is giving flowers to Jim Leyland ahead of his Pro Baseball Hall of Fame induction.

Greg Fiume/Getty Getty Images Share On the Friday before the All-Star break, Jim Leyland and Tony La Russa — formerly great managers, forever great friends — couldn’t seem to get off the ...

Jim Leyland was with the Cardinals, bridging his time between managing positions as a trusted scout for the front office and favorite golf cart partner of his pal Tony La Russa. Ask La Russa and ...

NASHVILLE — Tony La Russa has known Lou Piniella longer than ... La Russa, 79, is also best friends with Jim Leyland, who was elected by the contemporary baseball era committee for managers ...

Hall of Famer manager Tony La Russa, who was on hand for Jim Leyland's Hall of Fame press conference at the MLB Winter Meetings at the Gaylord Opryland Resort, sees one big similarity between ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Jim Leyland’s family and friends ... managers during my generation,’’ Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa said, “I think Jim’s the best of all of us.

Jim Leyland, having spent 11 years managing the Pittsburgh Pirates and two managing the Florida Marlins, winning a World Series in the process, quit after just one season guiding the ...

Of the 294 text messages Jim Leyland received in the hours after ... As Hall of Fame managers Tony La Russa and Joe Torre watched from front-row seats, Leyland put on a cream Hall of Fame jersey.

Jim Leyland will enter the Hall of Fame next ... if I was going to be ready for the manager’s job.” The truth, Tony La Russa said, is that Leyland was ready well before he joined La Russa ...