So innovatively and historically successful, he became the rare non-athlete in sports to be known by just a first name.
Theo.
It meant Theo Epstein, the baseball executive who accomplished something no one had done for generations in the American League ... and then did the same thing in the National League. It was astonishing. If two different men had been the top baseball ops executives to break the Red Sox and Cubs curses, both men would've gone down in history, side by side, as legends of the game. And to think — the same man did both things!
