A matchup of legendary baseball dinosaurs begins Thursday at Minute Maid Park in Houston when 76-year-old Tony La Russa and 72-year-old Dusty Baker square off in the opener of a four-game series between the Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros.
It’s the latest in a long-running miniseries and the first time the two have met since 2011, when La Russa was in his final year with the St. Louis Cardinals and Baker was managing the Cincinnati Reds.
They are the two oldest managers in the game — and among the all-time winningest. La Russa has 2,711 wins to his name, recently moving into a second place past John McGraw, while Baker (1,931) passed Casey Stengel for 12th.