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

Lee Elia, a former major league player and coach who was managing the Chicago Cubs in 1983 when he famously criticized the ...

Elia managed each of his two teams for two seasons, the Cubs from 1982 to 1983 and the Phillies from 1987 to 1988. He accrued ...

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

Robert E. “Rob” Stalker, 85, of Bedford, IN, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Monday, July 7, 2025, at his residence.