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After a wildly successful 11-year run with the New York Yankees, manager Joe Torre has marked his triumphant return to the National League by taking the reigns of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2007 season was record-breaking for Torre as led the Yankees to their 13th consecutive post season, became the first major league manager in history to have won 2000 games and have 2000 career hits, surpassed Casey Stengel having the most wins of any other Yankees manager, and climbed to 9th place on the MLB all-time Managerial Wins list.

In 1998, Torre and his team capped off one of the greatest seasons in the game of baseball. The Yankees earned an unprecedented 114 victories, breaking the American League record for most victories in one season. They went on to defeat the San Diego Padres in the World Series.

Joining the Yankees in 1996, Torre led his team to their first World Series victory in 18 years in his first year as manager. He is a three-time recipient of the Manager of the Year Award and, as a player, Torre is a nine-time All-Star, and a winner of the Most Valuable Player Award. In 1977, while playing for the New York Mets, Torre became the first player-manager in nearly two decades. He soon retired from playing and became the Mets' full time skipper. In 1982, he managed the Atlanta Braves to the division championship and was named the Associated Press' Manager of the Year, becoming the first person ever to be named Manager of the Year and MVP.

At the podium, Torre offers an inspiring story of personal and professional triumph. Drawing on championship memories and his own inspiring story of cancer recovery, he energizes people to compete and to find within themselves the will to succeed. He also demonstrates the need for selfless teamwork as a key component to reaching a common goal.

Torre grew up the youngest of five children in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a New York City police detective and revered in his community. He was the cop that made everyone feel safe. Everyone except his own family.

Joe, Sr. ruled his home with an iron fist. He was a physically abusive husband and an emotionally abusive father. The violence that had besieged the Torre household for so many years was a well-kept family secret and stayed a family secret for generations. However, in December of 1995, Ali and Joe Torre attended a seminar called "Life Success." As a result of Joe's participation in that seminar, he began to talk openly of his childhood experiences with domestic violence. He went public with his family secret in his autobiography, Chasing the Dream: My Lifelong Journey to the World Series.

Torre and his wife, Alice (Ali) Wolterman, wanted to educate children about the issue of domestic violence. In 2002, they created the Joe Torre Safe At Home Foundation. The mission of the Foundation is "educating to end the cycle of domestic violence and save lives."

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