Mike Scioscia a Godsend for Los Angeles Angels, Baseball

If the measure of a man rests in the company he keeps, then Mike Scioscia is a living legend.

As manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Scioscia joins the Braves' Bobby Cox and the Cardinals' Tony LaRussa as the longest-tenured and most successful managers in the game today.

Scioscia is second among active managers in win percentage (.551) and ranks 22nd all time, ahead of such great baseball names as Whitey Herzog and Casey Stengel.

He has also been a mainstay in the Angels' clubhouse since 2000, a 10-year span during which 27 other teams have hired and fired skippers, desperately looking for that chemistry that the Halos seem to have found.

Keenly aware of his attractiveness to other cl...

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