Nine-time All-Star Joe Torre, the 1971 National League Most Valuable Player and two time American League Manager of the Year, was born Joe Paul Torre, Jr. on July 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joe Torre, Sr., who was a New York City police detective. In 1960, nine years after Joe's older brother Frank was signed by the Boston Braves, Joe Jr. was signed by the Braves (now relocated to Milwaukee) as an amateur free agent. Frank and Joe's father Joe Torre Sr. was a baseball scout for the Milwaukee Braves from 1955 through 1961, and for the Baltimore Orioles from 1962 until his death in 1971. Nineteen-year-old Joe Jr. came up with the Braves for a cup of coffee in 1960.

Has managed the Yankees to four World Series championships - 1996, 1998-2000 - but has lost in his two most recent trips to the series, in 2001 to the Arizona Diamondbacks and 2003 to the Florida Marlins. He also earned the dubious distinction of being manager of the 2004 Yankees team that threw away a 3-0 series lead en route to an unprecedented 4-3 defeat in the AL Pennant to the Boston Red Sox.