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Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit.

Joe Torre

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
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Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
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I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
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Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.
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