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Mike Scioscia Manages To Win Championship Planning: His people skills lifted Anaheim's Angels over them all.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: MICHAEL MINK
For Mike Scioscia, baseball has three principles. He compromises on none of them.
When he was named the Anaheim Angels' manager before the 2000 season, Scioscia was just 41 and had managed at only the minor league level. But as the Los Angeles Dodger's No. 1 catcher for most of the 1980s, he was used to winning and had played on two world championship teams.
To spark the Angels, who were coming off a terrible 1999 season, Scioscia set out to put the players' focus on baseball and nothing else.
He wanted to end pettiness and clubhouse politics. His three principles were designed to do just that.
"First, you practice the game hard," Scioscia said in an interview Wednesday. "Whether it's spring training or pregame warm-ups, you practice the game hard. You work on your profession.
"Second, you get yourself ready to play, mentally and physically, every night or every day you're going to go on that field.
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