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Bruce Douglas Bochy (pronounced /ˈboʊtʃi/; born April 16, 1955, in Landes de Boussac, France) is the manager of the San Francisco Giants. Prior to joining the Giants, Bochy had been the manager of the San Diego Padres for twelve seasons. Bochy is the only former Padres player to serve as the team's manager. He has participated in all five postseason appearances in Padres history, as a backup catcher in 1984 and as their manager in 1996, 1998, 2005, and 2006. In 1998, he led the Padres to their first National League pennant in 14 years, where they lost to the New York Yankees in the World Series. He reached the World Series for a second time in 2010, this time in a winning effort, and brought the first ever World Series Championship home to the city of San Francisco and the first for the Giants since 1954. He is both the first foreign-born manager[citation needed] to reach the World Series (1998) and the first European-born manager[citation needed] to win the World Series (2010).
Bochy is one of just eight Major Leaguers to be born in France, where his father was stationed as a U.S. Army officer at the time. However, Bochy grew up in Virginia and in Melbourne, Florida. He graduated from Melbourne High School in 1973[citation needed] where he was baseball teammates with Darrell Hammond of Saturday Night Live fame.[citation needed] He attended Florida State University, and Brevard Community College.[citation needed] Bochy was then drafted in the first round (24th overall) by the Houston Astros in the 1975 Supplemental Draft.