Archive for November 18th, 2006

Leyland honored with top AL Manager

The Tigers had baseball’s second-longest active streak of losing seasons when president/general manager Dave Dombrowski hired Leyland last October. The veteran skipper from three other stops, including a World Series championship with Dombrowski in Florida in 1997, had spent the past six years observing the game as a scout for the Cardinals. He couldn’t refuse […]