Lee Elia, a former major league player and longtime coach who was managing the Chicago Cubs in 1983 when he famously criticized the team’s fans in a memorable postgame rant, has died. He was 87.

The Philadelphia Phillies said Elia died on Wednesday. No further details were provided.

Elia, a Philadelphia native, had a 238-300 record in four seasons as a big league manager, two with the Cubs and two with the Phillies. He was a shortstop during his playing career, batting .203 with three homers and 25 RBIs in 95 games with the White Sox and Cubs.

On April 29, 1983, Elia was the skipper for the Cubs when they dropped to 5-14 with a 4-3 loss to the Dodgers. The Wrigley Field crowd of 9,391 threw garbage at Keith Moreland and Larry Bowa as the Cubs made their way to the clubhouse.

Elia responded with an expletive-filled rant that lives on in censored versions still being played on various programs years later. As part of his remarks, he declared that 85% of the world is working and that “the other 15 come out here.”

Back then, there were no lights at Wrigley Field and the Cubs played only day games at home.

“At the moment, it was very, very difficult,” Elia said 25 years later while revisiting that day. “But you sit here and you’re 70 years old and you look at it and you say to yourself, ‘You know, yeah, it was unfortunate.’ But for crying out loud, we’re human beings and you make mistakes sometimes.”

Elia managed the Phillies in 1987 and 1988. He was the third base coach when the Phillies won the 1980 World Series.

Elia also worked for the Seattle Mariners from 1993-97, 2001-02 and in 2008 as a hitting coach, bench coach and special assistant. He later was a special assistant to the general manager and scout for the Dodgers.

DERBY FIELD FINALIZED

Athletics slugger Brent Rooker and New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. were added Thursday to the list of Home Run Derby participants, completing the eight-player field. The event will take place Monday night in Atlanta.

Rooker is batting .272 with 19 homers and 50 RBIs, putting him on pace for a third straight season of at least 30 homers. He went deep 30 times in 2023 and had 39 home runs in 2024.

The only A’s players to win the derby were Mark McGwire in 1992 and Yoenis Céspedes in 2013 and ’14.

Chisholm, a two-time All-Star, is making his first appearance in the derby and will become the seventh different Yankees player to participate. Five have won the event; Aaron Judge was the most recent in 2017.

Chisholm is batting .251 with 17 homers and 43 RBIs in 63 games this season.

The other scheduled participants are Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr., Minnesota’s Byron Buxton, Tampa Bay’s Junior Caminero, Pittsburgh’s Oneil Cruz, Seattle’s Cal Raleigh and Washington’s James Wood.

ALL-STAR REPLACEMENT

New York Mets pitcher David Peterson was added to the NL roster for Tuesday’s All-Star Game, replacing Giants left-hander Robbie Ray.

It’s the first All-Star selection for Peterson, who is 6-4 with a 3.06 ERA in 18 starts.

Ray is going to be inactive for the Midsummer Classic at Atlanta because he’s slated to pitch for the Gi- ants on Sunday against the Dodgers.

The 33-year-old Ray is 9-3 with a 2.63 ERA in 19 starts this season.

EX-PITCHER COLEMAN DIES

Joe Coleman, a lanky right-hander who won 142 games in 15 major league seasons and was an All-Star in 1972 with Detroit, died Wednesday morning, his son said. He was 78.

Casey Coleman, who pitched in 58 major league games from 2010-14, said his father died in his sleep in Jamestown, Tennessee.

After retiring as a player, Joe Coleman worked as a pitching and bullpen coach for the Angels, St. Louis Cardinals and Seattle Mariners along with several minor league clubs. Before joining the Angels’ major league staff in 1988, he served as a manager, coach and roving instructor in the organization’s farm system.

Coleman was the No. 3 pick in baseball’s inaugural amateur draft in 1965 when he was selected by the Washington Senators. His father, also named Joe — who pitched in the majors from 1942-55 — negotiated a club-record $75,000 signing bonus.

Coleman became the first player to reach the majors after being drafted when he debuted for the Senators on Sept. 28, 1965.

After the 1970 season, Coleman was traded to Detroit in a deal that sent Denny McLain to Washington. He enjoyed his greatest individual success with the Tigers, going 88-73 with a 3.82 ERA from 1971-76.

In 1971, he went 20-9 with a 3.15 ERA. He was an All-Star the following season.

Coleman also pitched for the Chicago Cubs, Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants and Pittsburgh Pirates. In his final season, he made 10 relief appearance for the 1979 Pirates, who went on to win the World Series.

For his career, he was 142-135 with a 3.70 ERA and 1,728 strikeouts in 484 appearances (340 starts).