On This Day: August 26
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1972
Leo Durocher, fired by the Cubs after 90 games, replaces Harry Walker as manager of the Astros. It is only the second time someone has managed two National League teams in the same season. The first was in 1948, when Durocher himself piloted the Brooklyn Dodgers and then their arch-rivals, the New York Giants.
