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NOTE- Fake.

Carlson Levanio "Carlie" Bavella (born March 1, 1935 in The Bronx) is a fictional retired manager who would run minor and MLRB teams, spanning 30 years, beginning in 1977.

Bio
Bavella was born in The Bronx. He barely survived birth, as his mother died from the complications of childbirth. His father, Guiseppe, an Italian tailor, was forced to raise him and his sister Mona, a year older. Under his father's care, Carlson Levanio Bavella (nicknamed "Carlie") learned baseball, playing off in the streets, often with his father pitching to him. Though there were no decent facilities in New York to play baseball (or football) other than Yankee Stadium, Bavella still managed to find locations, constructing a diamond in a vacant lot near his friend Collin Sandman's father's business when he was ten. He was blessed with power; in fact, one former building manager once said, "I filled more walls near Carlie's diamond than anywhere else in town."

When Bavella was fifteen, his father moved him, Mona, and new mother Amanda O'Connor to San Francisco, in pursuit of fulfilling his son's wild baseball dreams. Bavella made more of a name for himself in the streets than school; in fact, his street skill is what pushed (now-closed) Centerville Academy head baseball coach Larry Trumaine to install Bavella into his baseball lineup in 1950. Bavella, a mere five-foot-eleven and 133 pounds, played beyond his height, getting to start at shortstop and as a sophomore. As the years advanced, his skill grandly improved, and baseball scouts, both local and national, wanted a piece of him. The Pac-5's San Francisco Jets signed Bavella the second his high school graduation ended, in 1953.

With the Jets, where he played from 1953 to 1958, and again from 1960 to 1973, he set records for batting average (.310), runs batted in (1,352), and hits (2,204). He won eleven Pac-5 Gold Gloves, and even had a trial run with the Washington Senators in 1959 (which was not the best of Bavella). He won seven Pac-5 championships, and was named to the Pac-5 All-Star team 12 times. His number 3 hung from the rafters of County Park after his retirement in 1973.

Managerial profile
Four years later, in 1977, Bavella tapped the owner of the Jets, tailor Larry Limpelli, to allow him to work for the Jets in some position. "He told me, 'Try a major league job. Why youse comin' to me?' So I did." He was a consultant for the San Francisco Giants for that year only, then returned to the minors and got his first managerial gig with the Los Angeles Majors of the same Pac-5. In four seasons, the Majors had seven players called up to MLB, none full-time, and Bavella became known for his flailing temper and intensity.

"You wanna make the majors?" he wrote in his 1999 autobiography, This is the Real American Pastime (not real). "Then you gotta believe you're good enough for it. 'Cause if you think you ain't, you ain't." That was the statement he lived by when he ran the Majors, and he would work himself up very much in the name of it. "Some people thought he wanted the fame," Drew Simpel, an ace with the Majors from 1974-81, told the New York Times. "No, he was simply dedicated to gettin' us out." Under Bavella, the Majors captured 3 division titles, but no P5 championship. Star player Moses Almonte, who hit 52 home runs in 1980, demanded a deal to the Anaheim Wizards, who in turn would mold him into a major league regular. Bavella had many stories like these: higher-level baseball players, whose lives depended on the game, were asking to leave L.A. to run away from the emotional Bavella. "I never minded," he said. "I wanted to help."

In 1981, Limpelli found himself tapping Bavella to run the lowly Jets, who hadn't won a pennant since 1968. Under Bavella, the Jets became a celebrity ballclub with a celebrity manager. Fights in the dugout, on the field, and even between managers were ever so common that County Park was dubbed "Hell". Bavella and Limpelli would dictate every ounce of the field, from how high the outfield grass was to how slippery the infield dirt was supposed to be. Since there were no rules on how to maintain a ballpark, weeds, sand traps, and holes were common in the infield, so Bavella instructed his players to "go long"--that is, attempt to hit home runs over base hits. On nights where long ball teams were present, Bavella ordered the field managers to let the outfield grass grow and obstruct the opposition's ability to use the field, which prompted letters to Pac-5 president Marc Avery, who said grass could no longer be rigged to slow down another team. Bavella then found other ways to win: He believed in not walking sluggers with men on second and third; leadoff men always struck out; his outfield had to learn how to play a base position, and vice versa. Thus, his team was the most versatile group in baseball in general, and the Jets won seven pennants and five Pac-5 titles during his tenure, in which he hung up the cleats in 1991.

Bavella took a year off to be a Major League Racquetball commentator on ABC, spending the 1992 season doing West Coast games, and the World Series.

In 1993, the racquetball team, the Louisiana Home Runs, hired Bavella to run its team. Hearing of his success as a minor league skipper, the GM, Taylor Boehner, hoped that that same achievements could translate into victories for Louisiana, mainly slugger Zane Bonning. Bavella yelled at all and anyone who attempted to put himself over the manager, and even benched Bonning during his tenure in Louisiana. "Zane cannot carry a team by himself. He needs us," said Bavella in an interview in 1994, when Bonning was removed from the lineup. "He's bull***tin' me, telling me he's the best ever." (Bonning was inserted the next night, and apologized personally.)

Under Bavella, the Home Runs advanced to postseason twice, losing in the first round in 1993 and making a spirited push to the WCCS against the Milwaukee Beermen in 1994. However, Bunning went 0-for-4 with a walk, and unceremoniously swung at a Sean Hohn sinker that advanced Milwaukee to their lone World Series (they folded the next year).

After a disappointing 1995 season, as the Home Runs failed to score in the WCDS, Bunning demanded a trade from a team who had been purchased by a few new, cheap owners Max Churbacker and Dany Hale, who planned on moving the team to Indianapolis. Bunning echoed the verbatim of Bavella: "Hell no, I won't be in Indiana in 1996."

Bavella was awarded $40,000 to leave, and he took the money happily, donating all of it to cancer research.

Atlanta's superstar skipper
Bavella spent the next two years doing MLRB for NBC, where he was featured in a segment called "Carlie's Champs", profiling players handpicked by him that embodied the winning spirit.

In the winter of 1997, rumors circulated around Bavella, expecting him to be offered the Georgia Flame's managerial position. "I won't talk about it, eh?" a 62-year-old Bavella told NBC. "I'm being paid by NBC to broadcast the game of field racquetball to millions of Americans, and people bring up private crap like that. I have no comment." It was true, as Bavella donned the Flames cap in a press conference announcing his hiring in 1998.

He had a plan for the Flame: change team colors from red, black, and orange to blue, white, red, and brown, in the spirit of the Atlanta Braves. He pitched this idea to owner Ted Turner, and it was so, as the Flame donned the brand new snazzy uniforms on Opening Day 1998. With an array of superstars such as All-Stars Chad Blue, Donny Freeman, and Alexandro Silva being trained by the likes of Jim Curray (third base coach) and Gary Dorenhoefer (pitching coach), the Flame finished second in the East, and drew 10-10 to the New England Messengers