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The Hardball Times: Managerial Golden and Dark Ages

by Chris Jaffe October 19, 2009 Future Hall of Famer Bobby Cox. As readers of my work here at THT have hopefully noticed, I have considerable interest in managers. Heck, I wrote a book on them—Evaluating Baseball's Managers—due out later this year. Full Article at The Hardball Times

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