Terry Francona

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Terry Jon Francona (born April 22, 1959 in Aberdeen, South Dakota), nicknamed 'Tito,' is a Major League Baseball manager. Francona has been the manager of the Boston Red Sox, of the American League since 2004. Francona was drafted out of the University of Arizona in the first round of the 1980 amateur draft by the Montreal Expos, using the 22nd overall selection. That season, his team won the College World Series and Francona was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The left-hander wasted no time rising through the minor leagues, first appearing in a Montreal uniform August 19, 1981, a week after the end of that summer's player strike. He appeared mainly as an outfielder that first year, and he went 4-for-12 in the National League Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, an extra playoff round utilized that year because the season was conducted in two halves as the result of the strike. The Expos won that series, three games to two.