Dallas Green, a hot-tempered former pitcher with a booming voice who managed the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series title in 1980 but whose lack of success with the Yankees and the Mets led to his being dismissed, died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. He was 82.
The Phillies confirmed his death without specifying the cause, although they said he had been ill for some time and had died in a hospital.
In his later years, Green struggled to recover after the shooting death of his 9-year-old granddaughter, Christina-Taylor Green, who was one of six people killed in the failed assassination attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in 2011.