Coincidentally, having won a championship while managing the Florida Marlins in 1997, Tigers manager Jim Leyland could have achieved this same feat had the Tigers defeated La Russa's Cardinals in the 2006 World Series.

Leyland left the Tigers organization for the first time in 1982 when he became Tony La Russa's third base coach for four seasons ( 1982 – 85 ) with the Chicago White Sox, including the team's 1983 AL West division title, before being named the 33rd manager in Pittsburgh Pirates history on November 20, 1985.

After a 19-year playing career with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1945 – 56, 1961 – 63 ), New York Giants ( 1956 – 57 ) and Milwaukee Braves ( 1957 – 60 ), Schoendienst managed the Cardinals from 1965 through 1976, the second-longest managerial tenure in the team's history ( behind Tony La Russa's ).

In his book Three Nights in August, Buzz Bissinger mentions former manager Tony La Russa's frustration with Drew's lack of passion.

In 1988 and 1990, La Russa's Athletics lost the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds by a wide margin, despite the fact that the A's were heavily favored on both occasions.

One of La Russa's last moves as Cardinals manager: multiple defensive substitutions for the 9th inning, Game 7 of the 2011 World Series.

The three lowest placed teams in La Liga are relegated to the Segunda División, and the top two teams from the Segunda División promoted to La Liga, with an additional club promoted after a series of play-offs involving the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed clubs.

The top teams in La Liga qualify for the UEFA Champions League, with the first, second, and third placed teams directly entering the group stage and the fourth placed team entering the playoff.

In La Ceiba in Honduras, Carnival is held on the fourth Saturday of every May to commemorate San Isidro.

La notte won the Golden Bear award at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival, His first color film, Il deserto rosso ( The Red Desert, 1964 ), deals with similar themes, and is sometimes considered the fourth film of the " trilogy ".

Visconti's love of opera is evident in the 1954 Senso, where the beginning of the film shows scenes from the fourth act of Il trovatore, which were filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Bizet's fourth and final envoi, which occupied him for much of 1862, was a one-act opera, La guzla de l ' émir.

## Joan de Munchensi ( 1230 – 20 September 1307 ) married William of Valence, the fourth son of King John's widow, Isabella of Angoulême, and her second husband, Hugh X of Lusignan, Count of La Marche.

Henry continued to take an active role in the French Wars of Religion, and in 1572 – 1573 led the Siege of La Rochelle, a massive military assault on the Huguenot-held city of La Rochelle by Catholic troops during the fourth phase of the French Wars of Religion.

In the historical classification of La Liga, Athletic are in fourth place and one of only three clubs which have never been relegated from the Liga, the others being Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

In his first season in charge, Clemente led the team to fourth place in La Liga.

On 29 October 2008, freshly relegated into Segunda B, Poli trounced La Liga giants Villarreal CF 5 – 0 in the fourth round of the Spanish Cup, the first with teams from the top level ( 6 – 1 final aggregate ).

In September, Brel recorded his fourth album, La Valse à Mille Temps ( The waltz a thousand times as fast ), with François Rauber and his orchestra.

The current town name derives from the French name La Grande Île, as Grand Island is the largest island in the Niagara River and fourth largest in the state.

Aylsham came fourth in the world in an international competition celebrating liveable communities, winning a Silver Award in category A ( towns with a population up to 20, 000 ) of the International Awards for Liveable Communities, held in La Coruña, Spain in November 2005.

La Conquête de Plassans ( 1874 ) is the fourth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

These three then inspired a fourth monograph by French physician and popular science writer Gustave Le Bon, La Psychologie des foules ( 1895 ).

José Arismendy Trujillo oversaw the creation of " La Voz Dominicana ", the main radio station and later, the television station which became the fourth in the continent.

The Carnival of La Louvière is called Laetare, after the Latin verb meaning “ to enjoy ” ( the introit at mass on the fourth Sunday of Lent begins Laetare Jerusalem, Rejoice Jerusalem ).

Other writings that refer to the capital include Hernán Cortés ’ fourth letter in 1524, “ La información de Don Vasco de Quiroga, sobre el asiento de su iglesia Catedral ,” from 1538, “ Tratado curioso y doctor de las cosas de la Nueva España ” by Antonio de la Ciudad Real in 1590, “ Relaciones goegráficas ; las Crónica de la orden de Nuestro Seráfico Padre San Francisco, provincia de San Pedro y San Pablo de Mechoacan in la Nueva España ” by Alonso de la Rea in the 17th century and the “ Crónica de la provincia de los santos apóstoles San Pedro y San Pablo de Michoacán ” by Pablo Beaumont.

After his defeat for a fourth term in the House, La Follette returned to Madison to begin a private law practice and spend more time with his wife and four children.

On the fourth day, President Sánchez de Lozada sent fully armed military troops as a security force to open the way for diesel and gasoline cisterns through densely populated poor neighborhoods to pass safely down to La Paz.

The fourth species, the La Plata dolphin, lives in saltwater estuaries and near-shore marine environments.

At the end of the final ( fourth category ) climb of Cote de La Rochette, Vinokourov was in position to win a second stage, after having received the order to attack previously in order to compensate for the time his team mate Santiago Botero was going to lose due to stomach problems.

The ERP guerrillas and their supporting network of militants came under heavy attack in April 1976, and the Montoneros were forced to come to their assistance with money, weapons and safe houses. On 21 June 1976, the Labour Relations Manager of Swift ( an American food processing company ), Osvaldo Raúl Trinidad is shot and killed outside his home in the La Plata suburb of Buenos Aires after coming under fire from a car load of masked peronist guerrillas.

After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win.

In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.

In May 2005, Stéphane Lissner, formerly with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, was appointed as General Manager and Artistic Director of La Scala.

* City Manager: Carlos De La Torre

In September 2007, Gheorghiu was dismissed from Lyric Opera of Chicago's production of La bohème by General Manager William Mason, for missing rehearsals and costume fittings, and generally " unprofessional " behavior.

Benítez was appointed coach of Valencia and he proved himself to be amongst the top Spanish managers by winning La Liga in the 2001 – 02 season — Don Balón and El País named him Manager of the Year.

With the help of Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff La Résistance managed to keep hold of the titles for five months.

Marquis tossed a scoreless inning of relief in Game 1 of the 2004 World Series at Boston, and Manager Tony La Russa tabbed Marquis to start Game 4.

La Russa was named American League Manager of the Year in 1983, when his club won the AL West but fell to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.

In his first campaign with the Cardinals, in 1996, La Russa clinched the National League's Central Division title ( and also finished National League Runner-Up ), a feat his club repeated in 2000, 2001, 2002 ( his fourth Manager of the Year award ), 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2009 ( the Cardinals also tied for the National League Central crown with the Houston Astros in 2001 ).

Eventually, his character suffered a transformation, turning on his former allies and adopting the role of General Manager, forming a villanous stable known as " La Compañia ", which would had the rotating participation of Germán Figueroa and Ricky Banderas, whom he called his " Dream Team " while teaming them on the occasions that both coincided in the stable.

At Halloween Mayhem 2011, Rivera returned to IWA for the first time since Histeria Boricua 2011, turning on a heel Pérez and seizing control by regaining the office of General Manager and joining the still-undefeated Angel and Phillip Davian to form a stable known as " La Academia Gerencial ".

* Sandro La Mattina, Football Manager Regen

Peter Gloystein is also voluntarily active in various cultural institutions: Chairman of the Board of the Association supporting the Cultural Project Hombroich, Neuss ; General Manager of the Urban Planning Corporation Raumortlabor Hombroich gemeinnützige Stiftungs GmbH, Neuss ; Chairman of the Friends Association of the Teatro La Fenice, Berlin and Member of the Board of the Friends Association of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf / Duisburg.

As District Engineer for La Union, he was then tapped by Former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Former Tourism Secretary Jose D. Aspiras to lead the Philippine Tourism Authority which he served as General Manager from 1978 to 1986.

He previously worked as Sales Development Director for Impremedia and as National Sales Manager for La Opinión.

Taking over a General Manager in 1967 was Richard Pearlman under whose tenure were staged well-received productions of The Turn of the Screw, La bohème, and the first production of Barber's Vanessa.