Joseph Paul Joe Torre is an American professional baseball executive, serving as a special assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball since 2020.
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58 Facts About Joe Torre
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Joe Torre previously served in the capacity of Major League Baseball's chief baseball officer from 2011 to 2020.
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Joe Torre played for the St Louis Cardinals and New York Mets until becoming a manager in 1977, when he briefly served as the Mets' player-manager.
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Nine-time All-Star, Joe Torre won the 1971 National League Most Valuable Player Award after leading the major leagues in batting average, hits, and runs batted in.
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Joe Torre won two NL West division titles with the Dodgers for a total of 13 division titles.
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Joe Torre is the youngest of five children, two girls and three boys of Italian immigrants Joe Sr.
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Joe Torre's siblings include two older brothers, Frank and Rocco, and an older sister, Marguerite.
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Joe Torre worked briefly at the American Stock Exchange after high school.
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Joe Torre finished the season ranked second to Billy Williams in the 1961 National League Rookie of the Year voting.
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In 1965, Joe Torre won his first of two NL Player of the Month awards when he took the honour for May, batting.
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Joe Torre ended the season with 27 home runs and 80 runs batted in although his batting average dipped to.
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Joe Torre won his first and only Gold Glove Award in 1965 although, baseball historian Bill James said the decision was influenced by his offensive statistics and that, either John Roseboro or Tom Haller were more deserved of the award.
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Joe Torre was voted as the starting catcher for the National League All-Star team for the third successive year.
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Cardinals had Tim McCarver as their starting catcher so Joe Torre replaced the departed Cepeda as their first baseman for the 1969 season.
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In 1972, Joe Torre won his second consecutive starting role as third baseman for the National League in the All-Star Game.
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Joe Torre did serve 18 days as a player-manager, becoming the second of three players in the 1970s to take on both roles .
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Joe Torre managed the Mets from 1977 to 1981 season, but failed to improve the team's record.
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In 1982, Joe Torre replaced Bobby Cox as the manager of the Atlanta Braves, and immediately guided them to a Major League-record 13 straight wins to open the season.
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Joe Torre was named the Associated Press' Manager of the Year, becoming the first person to win both that and an MVP award.
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From 1985 to 1990, Joe Torre worked as a television color commentator for the California Angels.
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Joe Torre worked as a color commentator for NBC's Game of the Week telecasts alongside Jay Randolph.
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Joe Torre was fired in June 1995 for his poor record that year as part of a rebuilding project while Anheuser-Busch prepared to sell the team.
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Joe Torre served as the Yankees manager under owner George Steinbrenner.
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Joe Torre took the team to the postseason every one of his twelve seasons with the club, winning six American League pennants and four World Series.
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Joe Torre, building on the Yankees' Wild Card berth in 1995, made his first-ever trip to the "Fall Classic", leading the Yankees to their first World Series since 1981.
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Joe Torre's club set a major-league record of 125 total wins a season, including regular and postseason, breaking the 1906 Chicago Cubs' record of 118.
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Joe Torre became the first to manage his teams to two perfect game wins, while becoming just the fourth in MLB history to manage his club in two perfect games, joining Stengel, Walter Alston, and Tommy Lasorda .
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In 2004, Joe Torre suffered his greatest setback, marking the end of the Yankees' dominance.
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Joe Torre led the Yankees to their 13th consecutive postseason appearance.
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Joe Torre brought two members of his 2007 Yankees coaching staff with him.
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In 2009, Joe Torre served as a coach on manager Charlie Manuel's staff in the All-Star Game.
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Joe Torre stepped down as manager at the conclusion of the game.
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Joe Torre briefly resigned from his position with Major League Baseball in January 2012 amid speculation that he was interested in joining one of the groups seeking to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Joe Torre was the manager of the USA team in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
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In February 2020, Joe Torre was replaced as head of on-field operations by former pitcher Chris Young and was reassigned as special assistant to the Commissioner.
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In 2011, Joe Torre made his first appearance at the New York Yankees' Old Timer's Day.
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Joe Torre finished in the National League top ten four times each in batting average, on-base percentage, on-base plus slugging percentage, adjusted OPS+, hits, total bases, and RBI, and slugging percentage.
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Also a Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner at catcher, Joe Torre led National League catchers twice in fielding percentage and was in the top five caught stealing percentage.
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Joe Torre established a Major League record by guiding his clubs to 14 consecutive World Series wins from Game Three of the 1996 World Series through Game Two of the 2000 championship.
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Joe Torre became the first manager to guide his club to 12 consecutive postseason appearances.
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Joe Torre appeared as himself in the broadcast booth in the 1990 film Taking Care of Business, which showed a fictional World Series between the Angels and the Chicago Cubs.
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Joe Torre was featured as the "Voice of the Yankees' Manager" in the 2006 animated feature Everyone's Hero.
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Joe Torre's character manages a team that includes a fictional Babe Ruth.
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Joe Torre appeared with Willie Randolph in a set of Subway commercials, highlighting the pun of Subway and the Subway Series which Joe Torre, then as Yankees manager, took part with Randolph, then as Mets manager.
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Joe Torre appeared as himself in the 2002 Mafia comedy Analyze That starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal.
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Joe Torre appeared in the 2022 sports documentary The Captain, covering Jeter's life and career.
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Thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast, Joe Torre is a part owner of several horses.
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Joe Torre was a part-owner of Sis City, winner of the 2005 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland Race Course.
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Joe Torre has one son, Michael, by his first wife, Jackie, whom he married in 1963.
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Joe Torre has two daughters, Lauren and Cristina, by his second wife, Dani, whom he married in 1968.
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Joe Torre's older brother Frank Torre was a Major League Baseball player.
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