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Bob Watson and Joe Torre were teammates on the 1973 NL All-Star team and Watson played for Torre for three years in Atlanta.
But it was in The Bronx where the two made history, with Watson as the general manager when Torre and the Yankees won the World Series in 1996.
“All of a sudden we come together again with the Yankees and I am assuming he had to sign off on hiring me [as manager] and it was very comfortable,” Torre said Friday of Watson, who died Thursday at 74.