Joe Torre, Tony La Russa and Bobby Cox to be enshrined in Hall of Fame (cards, win)

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Bobby Cox, Tony La Russa and Joe Torre get the Cooperstown call - ESPN

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Bobby Cox, Joe Torre and Tony La Russa will rightfully enter the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a boxed set. We're talking about three managers who navigated changing times, different markets and the challenges of everything from media pressure to ballplayer egos to fickle fans with a consistency that never wavered. In total, they accounted for a staggering 7,588 wins and eight World Series titles

Huzzah!

[Grandstander]

No argument against any of them, congratulations to all three.

I still wonder why Billy Martin has never been honored with enshrinement. Wasn't he famous enough for the Hall of Fame?

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I'm partial to LaRussa, of course, being a Cards fan. But all of them belong at Cooperstown because it isn't easy to win championships. These guys did and they all did things the right way. Some might make a case against Torre (as, one year, he managed my Cards to a last-place finish), but look at what he did in New York with the Yankees and again with the Dodgers. Cox spent much of his career with Atlanta and is still so revered there.