Baseball manager sues Twitter

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2009

WASHINGTON (AFP) — St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has cried foul on Twitter.

La Russa is suing the micro-blogging service after an unidentified person created an account in his name in April and sent posts of questionable taste.

Lots of celebrities and athletes, including seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, are using Twitter but La Russa said in the lawsuit filed in a California court that he is not one of them.

The suit against Twitter states that the since-discontinued account -- twitter.com/TonyLaRussa -- used a photograph of the manager to imply that he was the one doing the "tweeting."

It said the entries posted on the Twitter feed were "derogatory and demeaning."

The lawsuit, which was filed...