Anthony Lewis Torchia is a former minor league baseball

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 player and manager

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. He was a left-handed throwing, right-handed batting first baseman

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 who played 13 seasons in the minors. Originally signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers

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, he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox

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 after his rookie season, 1962, and he would spend 24 years in the Boston organization.
Torchia played in 1,435 minor league games and batted

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 .294 with 89 home runs.

Torchia holds the distinction of having been the only man who has served as a player, coach

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 and manager of the Pawtucket Red Sox

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. After he retired as a player in 1974, he coached for the "PawSox" in 1975 (under skipper Joe Morgan

Joe Morgan (manager)

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). He then managed Class A and AA Boston farm clubs from 1976-82. His first team, the Winston-Salem Red Sox, won the 1976 Carolina League

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 pennant. He skippered the Bristol Red Sox

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 of the Double-A Eastern League for five seasons (1978–82), winning league titles in 1978 and 1981. Torchia returned to Pawtucket as the third manager in the club's Triple-A history in 1983. He spent two seasons there, winning the 1984 Governors' Cup

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, emblematic of the championship of the International League

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Torchia then was named bullpen coach

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 for the Boston Red Sox in 1985

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-Major League Baseball:*World Series: Kansas City Royals over St. Louis Cardinals ; Bret Saberhagen, MVP*American League Championship Series MVP: George Brett*National League Championship Series MVP: Ozzie Smith...

, his only full campaign in Major League Baseball

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. He managed Boston's Double-A New Britain

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 farm club in 1986 before leaving the organization for good. He later sued the Red Sox, claiming he was fired because of a medical disability.

Beginning in 1987, Torchia coached and managed at the minor league level for the San Diego Padres

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, Colorado Rockies

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, Houston Astros

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 and Montréal Expos

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His 1988 Riverside Red Wave, a San Diego affiliate, won the Class A California League

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 championship. Torchia most recently managed the Mid-Missouri Mavericks in the independent Frontier League

Frontier League

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