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Jan 30, 2024 · Former Tigers catcher Alex Avila has ties to all four of the new Hall of Famers, especially Leyland as his manager for five seasons of his 13-year MLB career. He studied Helton's left-handed swing ...
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Top 100 Players All-Time. All-Time Stats. Jim Leyland, the longtime manager who guided the Florida Marlins to the 1997 World Series title, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.
Dec 4, 2023 · Jim Leyland, who led the Florida Marlins to a World Series title in 1997 and won 1,769 regular-season games over 22 seasons as an entertaining and at-times crusty big league manager, was elected ...
Dec 3, 2023 · Former longtime manager Jim Leyland will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame after being selected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee on Sunday. Leyland spent 22 years as a manager ...
Dec 4, 2023 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the offseason of 1985, Jim Leyland took over as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates.He was 40 years old, had a brief minor-league career as a light-hitting catcher, then ...
Dec 3, 2023 · That was how Gibson met Jim Leyland. Gibson’s summer break from football would be spent under the tutelage of a guy whose resume at the time included seven years as a light-hitting minor-league ...
Dec 4, 2023 · Former baseball manager Jim Leyland, center, puts on a Hall of Fame jersey with Jane Forbes Clark, left, and Josh Rawitch, of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, during a news conference to announce Leland’s election into the Hall Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
