Altobelli would only manage the Orioles for another year and a half, one of the shortest tenures, ever for a championship winning manager.
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He made his name as a manager at Ipswich, winning the FA Cup in 1978 and the Uefa Cup in 1981.
And they are winning because they bought a manager who guarantees success.
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If equities plunge and terrified investors flee, a manager may be forced to sell winning stocks just to pay off massive redemptions.
The only noticeable blemish on his resume is a .412 winning percentage for his three years as manager of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Having a significant portion of your portfolio allocated to a winning stock sounds great, but the flip side is that you might also be subjected to a manager that missed Microsoft and decides to allocate too much into what he thinks is the "the next Microsoft" so that the clients can see that gain.
Inverness defender Grant Munro knows that manager Terry Butcher will be looking for a winning start no matter the opposition.
He left Wrexham to join Peterborough as a player-coach before taking over as manager and winning 73 of his 145 games in charge and leading them to two successive promotions, taking them from League Two to the Championship.
Following the vitriol aimed at their manager, United's players embarked on a nine-match winning run just as Liverpool's insecurities seeped into the open.
Leeds began the last decade at the top of the Premier League and challenging in Europe until a financial meltdown saw them slip down the divisions, but the current side under manager Simon Grayson are restoring pride to a once great club who were winning at Old Trafford for the first time since 1981.
As for Villa, manager Alex McLeish will be wondering how on earth his side lost from a winning position.
But the manager says they face a huge task if they are to take the step of winning the first major trophy in the club's history.
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Ferguson set himself apart from almost every manager in the game during that extended dominance by showing how many times he could rebuild a winning side around world-class talent.
The England Women's rugby captain decided the summer months would be best spent dedicating herself to her sport and so, sacrificing the security of a monthly wage, she resigned from her job as an office manager to pursue her ultimate goal of winning the Women's World Cup.
In baseball circles, that's an accomplishment most notably associated with Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane, the subject of the book Moneyball, for the string of winning clubs he put together earlier in the decade on budgets that resembled the petty cash drawers of the Yankees or Red Sox.
"We already know where we think we went wrong, " the manager said after a 0-0 draw at home to Hearts was not enough to prevent Rangers winning the league.
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