Tony La Russa becoming only the third manager to attain that win level after Mack and McGraw. After the retirement of Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox in 2010, La Russa was the longest tenured manager in Major League Baseball, and with the resignation of longtime NBA head coach Jerry Sloan from the Utah Jazz on February 10, 2011, La Russa had been the longest tenured bench boss among all the Big Four sports leagues, until his retirement following his 2011 World Series victory with the Cardinals. La Russa became eligible as a candidate for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 through voting
Bobby Evans (baseball) Bobby Evans (baseball) Robert Carlton "Bobby" Evans (born 1969) is an American baseball executive. He served as the general manager of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball from 2015 to 2018. Evans is from Staten Island, New York. As a young child, his family moved to Framingham, Massachusetts. His father's job with the United States Public Health Service later led the family to move to Jackson, North Carolina. He graduated from Northampton County High School East. He received an academic scholarship from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and attempted to walk on to the