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Former Major League Baseball manager Lee Elia is dead at 87. The Philadelphia Phillies confirmed that Elia passed away on Wednesday. Elia managed both the Phillies and the Chicago Cubs in the 1980s. He also served as a coach for several MLB teams, including the New York Yankees. Elia’s most infamous moments came in an expletive-filled rant with a small group of local reporters following a Cubs loss on April 29, 1983. The Philadelphia native was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in 2000 and was honored by the Phillies earlier this year for his lifetime of contributions to the game. “Elia was a valued contributor to the Phillies for much of his half century in professional baseball,” the Phillies said in a statement. “The third base coach for the 1980 World Series championship team, he also spent time in the organization as a minor league player, manager, scout and director of instruction
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