Joe Torre elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

[hrmjustin]

AP By HOWIE RUMBERG
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Retired managers Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox have been unanimously elected to the baseball Hall of Fame by the expansion era committee.

Each of the inductees won more than 2,000 games in managerial careers that spanned more than four decades. Torre became the fifth manager to win at least four World Series titles.

La Russa won championships with Oakland and St. Louis. Cox led Atlanta to one championship and 14 straight division titles.

The announcement was made Monday at the winter meetings.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/sports&id=9353978

[gopiscrap]

1. I was the batboy for the AAA Tacoma team and Torre was just starting out manager

of the Hawaiian Islanders. He was very kind and polite. I didn't know til later that he had graduated from Law School.

[hrmjustin]

2. I always thought he was a class act.

[gopiscrap]

3. I thought so too

by the time I met him, he had already had a good major league career as a player and a lot of those well known types usually wouldn't even give you the time of day, but he always did. He also was a good tipper!

[hrmjustin]

4. He worked for the Met's but that before I was not around or too young to remember.

[gopiscrap]

5. IIRC from the baseball cards I got from an older guy as a kid

he played on the 1967 World Series winning Cardinals team.

[hrmjustin]

6. Cool. I only remember him as a manager. he did great with the Yankees.

[gopiscrap]

7. I was so lucky as a kid. I wound up seating the baseball scouts who came to

evaluate the minor leaguers and many of them were former players themselves, so I met a lot of them. (Harmon Killebrew, Enos Slaughter, Duke Snider and a few other famour ones) one day I met this guy Earl Johnson picthed for the 1946 REd Sox on their World Series team that year. We got to talking and I told him I knew that about him and he asked why. I told him I came from Germany and mom didn't believe in TV so I read a LOT of baseball stuff and collected baseball cards. He told me had a box of cards in his parents attic and they just died and he wanted to get rid of them. (about 3,000 cards) So he asked me if I wanted them and of course I did. In there, there were old cigar cards and cards from the 40's and 50's. When ever I needed money for college, I sold cards. It helped me get my BA.

[hrmjustin]

8. Wow talk about good luck.

I have several thousand of them in a closet. I bet a few are worth something.

[gopiscrap]

11. Holy Shit:

what years are those...you need to check those out.

[hrmjustin]

12. Mostly late 80's.

[gopiscrap]

13. ok it's the 50's and 60's that will bring you the most money

because none of us knew we had dollars in those boxes. But some of your cards should fetch some cash!

[Sassysdad]

9. Met Mr. Torre..

When he visited the Albany Colonie Yankees in '94, 2 yrs before joining the big Yanks...I always wondered if he was scouting players or researching job prospects.
Nice guy.

[hrmjustin]

10. Yes he is a great guy.