Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers, the
“The playing credentials of seven of them were good enough for admission into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
—G. H. Fleming, The Dizziest Season Fleming is, of course, drifting out to left field when he says that all of the managers of 1934 had been outstanding players. Joe McCarthy never played in the major leagues, and several of the other managers (Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Bill McKechnie) were certainly not outstanding players.
As long as there have been managers, there have been manager...s who were not outstanding players. In 1885 there were twenty-one men who managed major league teams for ten or more games, eight of whom had never themselves played in the major leagues: 1885 Outstanding Players 3 Good Players 5 Fringe Players 5 Didn’t Play in the Majors 8 Good or Outstanding 38% This count is somewhat misleading, for two reasons. First, the leagues at that time were very new. Probably some of the managers of 1885 had been good players or even tremendous players, but were finished or nearly finished before the the two major leagues of 1885 (the National League and the American Association) were organized.MoreLess
—G. H. Fleming, The Dizziest Season Fleming is, of course, drifting out to left field when he says that all of the managers of 1934 had been outstanding players. Joe McCarthy never played in the major leagues, and several of the other managers (Connie Mack, Casey Stengel, Bill McKechnie) were certainly not outstanding players.
As long as there have been managers, there have been manager...s who were not outstanding players. In 1885 there were twenty-one men who managed major league teams for ten or more games, eight of whom had never themselves played in the major leagues: 1885 Outstanding Players 3 Good Players 5 Fringe Players 5 Didn’t Play in the Majors 8 Good or Outstanding 38% This count is somewhat misleading, for two reasons. First, the leagues at that time were very new. Probably some of the managers of 1885 had been good players or even tremendous players, but were finished or nearly finished before the the two major leagues of 1885 (the National League and the American Association) were organized.MoreLess
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