Blue Jays' Tosca manages just fine as teacher.

From: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | Date: March 20, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Mike Berardino

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. _ Just five words comprise the one-line entry in The Scouting Notebook, but those five words carry one of the biggest challenges for a big-league manager.

"No major league playing experience."

That description fits just three big-league managers this year, all of them in the American League: Boston's Grady Little, Texas' Buck Showalter and Toronto's Carlos Tosca.

While the biggest offseason fuss accompanied the hirings of Dusty Baker in Chicago, Felipe Alou in San Francisco and Lou Piniella going home to Tampa Bay, some ...

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