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NEW YORK -- Joe Torre sat back against the visiting dugout wall at Shea Stadium, deeply surrounded by the sea of cameras and microphones that was his life for 12 years across town. The re- enactment was familiar, if not particularly comfortable for the former New York Yankees manager who left the family under distressing circumstances ... and who sounded as if he still carried some of the scars.
Torre, a native New Yorker in his first year as manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, was his typical nostalgic and gracious self Thursday prior to the start of a four-game series with the New York Mets, but he made it clear that he doesn't miss the "high-wire" circus act that accompanies a managerial position in New York in terms of peripheral scrutiny.See the full content of this document
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Torre Enjoying Life in Los Angeles
He joked that he was reminded of the difference between managing in L.A. as compared to New York in spring training when Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez was hit by a pitch "and no one wrote about it. I don't want to say it was nic...
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