[tps_title]Terry Francona[/tps_title]
[tps_header]Two-time World Series champ with Red Sox[/tps_header]
Former Arizona baseball star Terry Francona, the 1980 Golden Spikes Award winner as the collegiate player of the year in 1980, did the unthinkable: He managed the Boston Red Sox to their first World Series title in 86 years in 2004. The Red Sox swept the St. Louis Cardinals in four games that season and then three years later took out the broom against the Colorado Rockies in four games for a second title. Francona is the only manager in Major League history to win his first eight consecutive World Series games and just the second manager to guide two Red Sox clubs to World Series titles, the other being Bill “Rough” Carrigan who led Boston to back-to-back championships in 1915 and 1916.
