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Originally Posted by bassrique  It was a heartwarming scene; the way the Giants [and everyone else] gave the man a well deserved ovation. He's one of the best managers ever. |
Not only one of the best on the field, but one of the best personalities we will ever see play the game. Players all around the league want to play for a guy like him and those who have been fortunate enough to do so will tell you he is a true class-act.
Jayson Stark of ESPN.com had a terrific article a few weeks back about just how much he means to his players:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/column...son&id=5625259
One of my favorite sections of the article:
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Pretty much everyone else who has managed a big league baseball team has left a trail of players who think that whatever bad stuff happened to them, it was at least partly the manager's fault.
Cox, on the other hand, has set a record that might never be broken: We've never heard a single player rip him. Not one. Not ever.
"If somebody has, I've never seen it. I've never heard it," said Braves president John Schuerholz, the man who teamed with Cox to form the longest-running manager/general manager tag team in history. "I never even heard it secondhand. I never even heard it fourth-hand."
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