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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.

Joe Torre

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Dodgers
Managing
Yankees
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Hated

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