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hughee99

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4. LaRussa was the White Sox mgr until 1986, while McDowell made his MLB debut in 1987.

Reply to tishaLA (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 10:37 PM

Jan 2020

While LaRussa is technically correct that McDowell never played for him, McDowell played with (and talked to) a whole bunch of LaRussa’s teammates.

It would be interesting to see if Oakland and St. Louis had such a system.

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