Dallas Green, first Phillies manager to win the World Series, dies at 82

Dallas Green, 82, the bearish, blustering, boom box-throated manager who in 1980 whipped a talented but complacent Phillies team to the franchise's first world championship, died Wednesday, a team official confirmed.

Details of his passing were not immediately available, but Mr. Green, a resident of West Grove, had been suffering from kidney disease and had been in declining health for several months.

"We mourn the passing of Dallas Green," read a statement from the Phillies. "The Phillies have lost a great man and wonderful friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."

Mr. Green spent most of his long baseball career with a Phillies organization that signed him as a Delaware high schooler in 1955. Over the subsequent 61 years, with notable interruptions in New York and Chicago, he would pitch, coach, manage, scout, and fill a number of front-office positions for the team.

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