Terry Paul Bevington is a former manager

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 of the Chicago White Sox

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 of Major League Baseball

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Bevington was born and raised in Akron, Ohio

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, where he was a standout high school baseball player. He spent seven seasons in the minor leagues after being drafted by the New York Yankees

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 in 1974

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. He batted

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 .247 in 368 games played, including 33 with the Triple-A Vancouver Canadians

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 of the Pacific Coast League

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 in 1980. He threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.9 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg).

He then managed in the Milwaukee Brewers

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 organization for seven years before being named third base coach in 1989

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-Major League Baseball:*World Series: Oakland Athletics over San Francisco Giants ; Dave Stewart, MVP*American League Championship Series MVP: Rickey Henderson*National League Championship Series MVP: Will Clark...

. In the middle of the 1995

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 season, Bevington's seventh on the ChiSox' staff, he was named manager of the White Sox when Gene Lamont

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 was fired on June 2. After 2½ seasons at the helm, he was fired at the end of the 1997

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-Major League Baseball:*World Series: Florida Marlins over Cleveland Indians ; Liván Hernández, MVP*American League Championship Series MVP: Marquis Grissom**American League Division Series*National League Championship Series MVP: Liván Hernández...

 with a record of 222-214 (.509). He was a third base coach for the Toronto Blue Jays

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 from through before returning to the minor leagues as a manager. He resigned as the Edmonton Cracker-Cats

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' skipper after a suspension stemming from a on-field brawl between the Cracker Cats and Calgary Vipers

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