Perry football cancels 2 games because of pandemic White Sox reunite with La Russa, hire Hall of Fame manager
Gilbert Perry High School will have to cancel its next two football games with players going into a 14-day quarantine because of COVID-19.
Perry, which reached the 6A state final in 2017 and 2018, was scheduled to play Queen Creek Casteel on Friday nightand Gilbert Higley next week.
– Richard Obert
CHICAGO – Tony La Russa, the Hall of Famer who won a World Series with the Oakland Athletics and two more with the St. Louis Cardinals, is returning to manage the Chicago White Sox 34 years after they fired him.
The 76-year-old La Russa rejoins the franchise where his managing career began more than four decades ago.
He takes over for Rick Renteria after what the White Sox insisted was a mutual agreement to split.
“We are extremely excited about the future of this team,” general manager Rick Hahn said Thursday.
“As we showed in 2020, this is a young, talented club that we expect to only grow better and better in the coming years.
“Adding in a Hall of Fame manager who is recognized as being one of the best in the history of the game, we are a step closer to our goal of bringing White Sox fans another championship.”
La Russa inherits a team loaded with young stars and productive veterans that made the playoffs for the first time since 2008, only to sputter down the stretch and get knocked out in the American League wild-card round.
La Russa becomes the oldest manager in the major leagues by five years.
Houston’s Dusty Baker is 71.