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Durocher was named to the NL's All-Star team three times, once with St. Louis and twice with the Dodgers. In the 1938 game in Cincinnati, Durocher hit the only Little League Home Run in All-Star Game history. [7] Also in 1938, Durocher made history of a sort by making the final out in Johnny Vander Meer's second consecutive no-hitter. [8]
The following is a list of individuals who have managed the Major League Baseball All-Star Game over the years (except 1945), since its inauguration in 1933. Chosen managers and winning pennant managers manage teams including American and National Leagues. [1] No official MLB All-Star Game was held in 1945 and 2020. [2]
The 1954 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 21st playing of the midsummer classic between ... Manager. 24 Walter Alston; Coaches 2 Leo Durocher; 40 Charlie Grimm
The 1939 Brooklyn Dodgers started the year with a new manager, Leo Durocher, who became both the team's manager and starting shortstop.They also became the first New York NL team to have a regular radio broadcast, with Red Barber handing the announcers job, and the first team to have a television broadcast (during their August 26 home game doubleheaders against the Reds, both of which WNBT ...
The 1955 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 22nd playing of the midsummer classic between the ... Manager 2 Leo Durocher; Coaches 2 Fred Haney; 24 Mayo Smith
Former Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox holds the record with 162. [1] Cox, John McGraw , and Leo Durocher are the only managers with at least 100 career ejections. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
[1] In the first season after the National League was split into two divisions, the Cubs finished with a record of 92–70, 8 games behind the New York Mets in the newly established National League East. Caustic 64-year-old Leo Durocher was the Cubs manager. The ill-fated season saw the Cubs in first place for 155 days, until mid-September when ...
The Yankees were back after a one-year hiatus, having won thirteen (13) of their last fourteen (14) Series games and twenty-eight (28) of their last thirty-one (31) games in the World Series. This was the first Subway Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, who had already faced the crosstown New York Giants five times, and ...