Terry Francona managed the Red Sox to two World Series titles during his eight-year tenure in Boston. He led Cleveland to an American League pennant in 2016. But his stint as the manager for the Birmingham Barons boasts a claim to fame that may rival his other accomplishments:
He taught Michael Jordan how to play Yahtzee.
After Jordan’s first retirement from basketball in 1993, he signed a minor league contract with the Chicago White Sox and was assigned to the Double-A squad in Birmingham.
Francona, who was the team’s manager at the time, told Complex that Jordan was “competitive in everything,” and Yahtzee was no different.