FULL NAME: Terry Jon Francona
AGE (
on Opening Day): 48
DOB: April 22, 1959
BIRTHPLACE:
Aberdeen, South Dakota
HEIGHT: 6’1”
WEIGHT: 190lbs
BATS: Left
THROWS: Left
COLLEGE:
University of Arizona
PLAYING INFORMATION:
MAJOR LEAGUE DEBUT: August 19, 1981
FINAL GAME: April 19, 1990
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Terry Francona has been around professional baseball all his life. He is the son of former journeyman Tito Francona and played ten years of professional ball at the Major Leagues with Montreal, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Milwaukee. Francona has eight years of experience as a major league manager, managing the Philadelphia Phillies from 1997-2000 and his current position with the Red Sox. In his first season in Boston, Francona was a key piece of the puzzle to bringing the World Series trophy back to Boston for the first time in 86 years. Four years later, in 2007, he managed the Red Sox to their second championship in four years and became the first team, this century, to win multiple World Series. Francona is married to Jacque Lang and have four children together, Nick (7/11/85), Alyssa (4/7/87), Leah (1/27/90) and Jamie (11/24/93). His son Nick was left handed pitcher for the University of Pennsylvania Quakers baseball team while daughter Alyssa is a third baseman for University of North Carolina Tar Heels softball.
Links:
Benjamin, Amalie. "Francona is uniformly upset" The Boston Globe 31 August 2007.
UNC Tar Heels's third baseman
Alyssa FranconaMultimedia:Francona Joins WEEI's Dale & Holley from Fort Myers, Florida on February 25, 2008. (
2/25/08)
Francona joins WEEI's Dennis & Callahan in Fort Myers, Florida on February 20, 2008. (
Part 1)
Francona joins WEEI's Dennis & Callahan in Fort Myers, Florida on February 20, 2008. (
Part 2)
