CHICAGO — Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last too long in his job. Elia managed 285 games for the Cubs from 1982 ...
1. The first time I heard the greatest f—— rant in f—— baseball history was in 1997. I was a freshman in college, covering the football team for the school paper. After a particularly unsightly loss, ...
Lee Elia, known for managing the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies during his decades-long career in MLB (and for an infamous, expletive-filled postgame rant), has died. He was 87. The Phillies ...
Lee Elia, a longtime baseball lifer who may be best known for his epic 1983 rant, died this week at the age of 87. Elia played in 95 big league games and managed 538 with the Chicago Cubs and ...
CHICAGO — “I guess I lost it,” Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia told reporters on April 29, 1983, hours after he made an epic rant ripping the team’s fans — a three-minute tirade peppered with more than ...
Lee Elia, the former manager of the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies who is perhaps best known for his rant directed at Cubs fans critical of his team in 1983, has died at the age of 87. The ...
Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last too long in his job. Elia managed 285 games for the Cubs from 1982-83, going ...