Joe Torre returns to Atlanta, where he was a brave and a Yankee enemy

“When we came here and I was here as a player, it was a nice baseball stadium that is sure to take up,” the Atlanta Stadium, the predecessor of Turner Field and Truist Park. “But when I came back to manage it, I was excited to come here, and we were successful in my first year and then did nothing in the next few years and I went. I'm just sorry that my term was no longer.

Torre moved with the Milwaukee franchise for the 1966 season. He played three seasons with the Braves after moving to Atlanta and in the first two years they mainly received all-star honors as catchers. This was followed by the Milwaukee Braves for six years, in which he put together three all-star games.

From 1960 to 68 he was a teammate of the legendary Hank Aaron.

When I am back in Atlanta, “I can't help (but think of him),” said Torre. “I got a fan of Hank first when my brother (Frank) played with him in the 1950s, and then I suddenly be a teammate of him. I always felt very close to Henry.”

Torre headed the Braves from 1982 to 1984 and led the Braves best in the first season of NL MVP Dale Murphy in Torres National League West title. It was the team's first post -season appearance since 1969 and followed seven in a row in which the Braves had no better than fourth place in the division. He was released after he had not put into the playoffs in the next two years and ended with a record of 257-229.

He was appointed to the Braves Hall of Fame in 2022.

One of the organization employees with whom he worked during the administration was a minor League coach named Brian Snitker.

“I know that as a coach of the young Minor League, I go to spring training and the impact practice for (the Major League team), and Joe always treated everyone with such respect and professionalism,” said Snitker on Monday. “He is one of these guys for which I have so much respect and I look forward to seeing him.”

Torre called Snitker a Lifer and remembered training him alongside Bobby Cox and the third basis. He remembered that he had passed the 2021 World Series, who ultimately won from the good.

“I'm happy for him,” said Torre about Snitker. “He had the success. The players love to play for him and he is a good guy.”

Torre also honored his rival Cox and said that the Hall of Famer was “as difficult as any other of them because he would play the game with the good pitching and defense.”

Torre now worked as a special assistant of the Commissioner Rob Manfred for MLB and was not only known to Truist Park and the Battery Atlanta – he called it “a great goal” – but also with the development of Turner Field, “that I am happy is still in operation with Georgia State.

Heared the 84-year-old Torre, a born New Yorker, casually formed the Center Park Stadium of the state of Georgia, like some Marta-Ride bars, which were evaluated for the less likely developments from the media meetings on Monday.

Torre said he started with Alice Wolterman during his leading term with the good. They used to meet in Cincinnati where it came from, but she moved to Atlanta to be closer to him and completed her degree at the GSU. They married in 1987.

He also remembers Atlanta for two of his World Series Triumph. The Yankees were a combined 5: 0 in Atlanta in the World Series 1996 and 1999 on the way to winning both championships.

“We had a lot of success here,” he said. “I still have goose bumps when I think about it.”

Some memories in Atlanta, Torre could be good to stay private.