Joseph Paul Torre (born July 18, 1940 in Brooklyn,
New York) is a former Major League Baseball player
and the current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
He played for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, St.
Louis Cardinals, and New York Mets; he has also
managed all three teams.
Although he had a fairly unimpressive managerial
record with the Mets, Braves, and Cardinals, it was
during Torre's tenure as manager of the New York
Yankees that he has thus far achieved his greatest
success. In the years that he led the team, from
1996 to 2007, the Yankees went to the post-season
each year and won ten American League East Division
titles, six American League pennants, and four World
Series titles, in addition to compiling a .605
winning percentage with them. On November 1, 2007
Joe Torre was officially hired by the Los Angeles
Dodgers to become their new manager.
