Cardinals’ Manager Tony La Russa Retires on Top

Saying this felt like “the time to end it” St Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa announced his retirement, three days after his club defeated the Texas Rangers in the World Series.  La Russa, 67, said he is open to a job in baseball in the future, but that he won’t manage again and did not want to be a general manager.  We’re sure the MLB Network of ESPN would be happy to find a spot for him as a baseball commentator.

La Russa won 2728 games in his managerial career that began with the Chicago White Sox in 1979.  If he stayed on another year, he would be second on the all time list for managerial victories (he’s 35 behind number 2 John McGraw) but other than that, he has nothing much left to accomplish.  Besides winning two World Series as manager of the Cardinals, (the other was in 2006), he won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1989.  He won two other American League Pennants (1988 an 1990 with Oakland) and a National League Pennant with St. Louis in 2004.  So hey, why not go out on top?  Even if he doesn’t take another baseball job, we’ll see him again when he’s inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.