Photo gallery: Terry Francona through the years
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Ex-Wildcat Terry Francona is named to the College World Series Legends Team.
Terry Francona and teammate Craig Lefferts, left, accept the Greyhound Parks Award in 1979. Francona also won the Golden Spikes Award in 1980, presented annually by USA Baseball to the nation's top amateur player, and was named 1980's College Player of the Year by The Sporting News.
- UA Athletics, undated
Manager Terry Francona laughs in the Boston Red Sox dugout during a spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals in Fort Myers, Fla., on March 8, 2010.
- AP Photo/Nati Harnik file 2010
Terry Francona played at the University of Arizona 1978-1980.
- UA Athletics, undated
- UA Athletics, undated
In 1979, Terry Francona won the Midwest Regional Most Valuable Player award and led the Wildcats to a fifth-place finish at the College World Series.
- UA Athletics, undated
Terry Francona hit .401 in 1980 and .458 at that year's College World Series.
- UA Athletics, undated
Terry Francona and teammate Craig Lefferts, left, accept the Greyhound Parks Award in 1979. Francona also won the Golden Spikes Award in 1980, presented annually by USA Baseball to the nation's top amateur player, and was named 1980's College Player of the Year by The Sporting News.
- UA Athletics, undated
Terry Francona, who had recently become the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, speaks at a ceremony to retire his number at Arizona's Sancet Field in 1997.
- James S. Wood/Arizona Daily Star file 1997
Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona, right, congratulates his former coach at Arizona, Jerry Kindall, at a ceremony naming Jerry Kindall Field at Frank Sancet Stadium.
- Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star file 2004
American League All-Star manager Terry Francona of the Boston Red Sox hugs Michael Young of the Texas Rangers after the AL's 7-5 win over the National League in the 2005 MLB All-Star Game at Detroit's Comerica Park.
- AP Photo/Al Behrman file 2005
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Former Arizona Wildcat Terry Francona was named to the College World Series Legends Team, which honors players who had the best CWS performances throughout the 60 years the event has been played at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.
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