Elia’s professional baseball career spanned more than 50 years as a player, coach, manager and executive, but his name will ...

Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last ...

Lee Elia, who is perhaps best known for his rant directed at Cubs fans critical of his team in 1983, died Wednesday.

I guess I lost it,” Chicago Cubs manager Lee Elia told reporters on April 29, 1983, hours after he made an epic rant ripping the team’s fans — a three-minute tirade peppered with more than 50 profane ...