Full Text of HR0815 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Tony La Russa on | 4 | | his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Tony La Russa began his managerial career in 1979 | 6 | | when the Chicago White Sox took a chance on a law school | 7 | | graduate, giving him his first big-league job; he won one | 8 | | division title during his 8 years in Chicago and won his first | 9 | | manager of the year award in 1983; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Tony La Russa moved on to Oakland in 1986, where | 11 | | he spent 10 years with the Oakland A's and won 4 American | 12 | | League West titles, 3 pennants, and the 1989 World Series; he | 13 | | won 2 more manager of the year awards and became one of the | 14 | | more prominent and successful managers in baseball during his | 15 | | time in Oakland; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Tony La Russa's greatest success began in 1996 | 17 | | when he took over the St. Louis Cardinals; he managed for 16 | 18 | | seasons in St. Louis, the most by a Cardinals manager in | 19 | | franchise history; he won more games than any Cardinals manager | 20 | | in team history and earned 52% of his career victories as a | 21 | | Cardinal; he managed 5,097 Major League Baseball games in total | 22 | | and 51% of those games were spent in the Cardinals dugout; as a |
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| 1 | | St. Louis Cardinal, he won 6 division titles, 3 pennants, and 2 | 2 | | World Series titles, including one in 2011, his last season as | 3 | | a manager; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Tony La Russa led all 3 franchises into the | 5 | | postseason, but 50 of his 70 career postseason victories came | 6 | | as the Cardinals manager; he finished with the third most wins | 7 | | by a manager in a career that ended in 2011 with a record of | 8 | | 2,728 wins and 2,365 losses; it has been said that he became a | 9 | | big-league manager in Chicago, a great manager in Oakland, and | 10 | | a Hall of Fame manager in St. Louis; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we congratulate Tony La Russa on his unanimous induction into | 14 | | the National Baseball Hall of Fame; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to Tony La Russa as a symbol of our respect and | 17 | | esteem.
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