Claim: In the 1990 baseball season,the Cincinnati Reds won the Major League World Series over the favored Oakland Athletics AL pennant winners, with OA's manager LaRussa eventually moving on to manage the Chicago White Sox.
Evidence: The Reds swept the heavily favored Oakland Athletics in four straight, and extended a Reds winning streak in the World Series to nine consecutive games. Despite being fired in the middle of the 1986 season, the Athletics hired him less than three weeks later, and La Russa led the A's to three consecutive American League championships from 1988 to 1990 and the 1989 World Series title. He left Oakland following the 1995 season to manage the Cardinals, and led the team to three National League championships and the 2006 and 2011 World Series titles. In the 2021 offseason, he was named the manager of the Chicago White Sox a second time after the firing of Rick Renteria. Anthony La Russa Jr. (/ləˈruːsə/; born October 4, 1944) is an American professional baseball manager for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB).