Tony La Russa had just been hired to manage the Double-A Knoxville Sox in 1978, the first step on a journey that led to his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Before Opening Day that season, White Sox player personnel advisor Paul Richards came to town to introduce him at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
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Tony La Russa, feeling the urgency to wrap up a Hall of Fame induction speech that lasted 17 minutes, 26 seconds Sunday, noted afterward with some measure of horror that he had neglected to mention the baseball legend who had helped him start his managing career and the baseball legend who was there at the end of it.
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