Tony La Russa, who hasn’t managed in nine years since leaving the Cardinals and is 76 years old, is returning to where it all started for him as a big-league manager.
The Chicago White Sox announced Thursday that La Russa would take over the White Sox, whom he first piloted as a 34-year-old in 1979 and guided to a division title in 1983 before being fired in 1986 and moving on to Oakland and St. Louis where he won a total of three World Series championships, two with the Cardinals. The second title here came in 2011 and La Russa announced his retirement as a manager the day after the victory parade.