It lies to us
I have one of those fact-a-day desk calendars for the Orioles. I do not like it, Sam-I-Am, because it can indeed play free and easy with the facts it gives, sometimes giving records as current that have already been broken, and so on
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His tenure as a major league manager is most remembered for an unfortunate incident when he was manager of the Rangers in spring training of 1977: infielder Lenny Randle assaulted him, broke his jaw and inflicted a number of other injuries in what was apparently an unprovoked attack. Randle later claimed that Lucchesi had insulted him, calling him a "punk" (before the term became primarily associated with a musical genre and lost much of its bite). Randle was suspended and then traded away to the New York Mets for his role in the incident, but Lucchesi's reputation was also shattered. He was fired shortly thereafter and never received another chance to be a full-time manager in the majors (his gig with the Cubs in 1987 was in an interim capacity).
I still like Lenny Randle. He was at bat for the Mets with a 3-2 count later that year when the New York City blackout happened; the lights went out mid-pitch. Randle threw down his bat, walked to first base, looked the ump straight in the eye through the darkness and said, "Let's see you argue this one."
He was also the guy that once got on his hands and knees and blew a bunt foul; they had to rewrite the rule for that one.
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