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Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last ...
Elia managed each of his two teams for two seasons, the Cubs from 1982 to 1983 and the Phillies from 1987 to 1988. He accrued ...
Lee Elia, a former major league player and coach who was managing the Chicago Cubs in 1983 when he famously criticized the team’s fans in a memorable postgame rant, has died. He was 87. The ...