"Jim Fregosi, the first star player in Angels franchise history and the manager who guided them to their first American League West championship in 1979, died early Friday in a Miami hospital after suffering a stroke in the Cayman Islands.
He was 71. His death was announced by the Angels, who retired his No. 11 jersey and inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 1998."
Fregois was a great player, an AL All star, manager of the 1979 AL West champion Angels and 1993 NL champion Phillies.
He is also remembered for a 1971 trade that sent Fregosi to the Mets and a very young Nolan Ryan to the Angels. Ryan turned into a Hall of Fame pitcher and Fregosi was over his prime.
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