Girardi keeps managing Yanks after father's death

JustinVerlander35 · Oct 11, 2012

Yankees manager Joe Girardi, whose team can advance to the American League Championship Series with a win Thursday, has been quietly working with a heavy heart following the recent death of his father.

Jerry Girardi died Saturday in Metamora, Ill., at age 81, following an extended battle with advanced Alzheimer's disease. His son received a phone call notifying him as the Yankees were traveling to Baltimore to open the AL Division Series, which started on Sunday.

Not wanting to distract from the club's postseason efforts against the Orioles, Girardi passed along word only to a handful of select Yankees staff members and opted to continue managing the club through its first three games of the postseason.

"I didn't really want to talk about it," Girardi said. "I didn't want to take away from what we were trying to do here, because I know my dad wouldn't. The one thing my parents always taught me was -- finish the job at hand."
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