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On the Friday before the All-Star break, Jim Leyland and Tony La Russa — formerly great managers, forever great friends — couldn’t seem to get off the phone with each other.
First, they combed through the beginning of Leyland’s Hall of Fame induction speech, which he is to give Sunday during a ceremony (12:30 p.m., MLB Network) where Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton and Joe Mauer also will be welcomed into baseball’s Cooperstown, N.Y., holy place. Then, Leyland read the end, which led to even more discussion.
“Wait ’til you hear it,” La Russa said.