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Connie Mack in 1916. Connie Mack is the all-time leader in career wins and losses by a manager. This article contains a list of all Major League Baseball managers with at least 1,000 career regular season wins, a list of managers who have regular season win percentages of at least .540 in at least 400 games (2.5 full seasons), and a list of all-time World Series win-loss records. [1]
1994–95 Major League Baseball strike: 1995: Cleveland Indians: Atlanta Braves: Atlanta Braves 1996: New York Yankees: New York Yankees 1997: Cleveland Indians: Florida Marlins: Florida Marlins 1998: New York Yankees: San Diego Padres: New York Yankees 1999: Atlanta Braves: New York Yankees
Jim Fanning was the only Expos club manager to appear in the Major League Baseball postseason; his .529 regular season winning percentage was the highest in franchise history. The only other Expos manager with a winning percentage above .500 is Buck Rodgers (.510), [ 41 ] who won the 1987 Manager of the Year Award. [ 12 ]
Christy Mathewson played one season with the Cincinnati Reds as a player-manager, then remained as their manager. John McGraw retired as a player in 1906, but managed the New York Giants until 1932. Frank Robinson became the first African-American manager in MLB history when he was named player-manager of the Cleveland Indians in 1975. [19]
Major League Baseball recognizes the player or players in each league with the most wins each season. In baseball, wins are a statistic used to evaluate pitchers. Credit for a win is given by the official scorer to the pitcher whose team takes and maintains the lead while he is the pitcher of record. If a game is tied or if the lead changes to ...
Ty Cobb was the first player to reach 3,000 games played. Cobb's record of 3,035 games played lasted for 46 seasons until Hank Aaron would break the record. Aaron's record was subsequently broken by Carl Yastrzemski in 1983 and finally broken the following season by Pete Rose, who currently holds the record for most games played at 3,562.
Carl Yastrzemski played in Major League Baseball for 23 seasons, all with the Boston Red Sox. The following is a list of former Major League Baseball (MLB) players who played in at least 10 MLB seasons and spent their entire MLB playing careers exclusively with one franchise. In most cases, this means the player only appeared with one team ...
Melvin Leroy Harder (October 15, 1909 – October 20, 2002), nicknamed "Chief", was an American right-handed starting pitcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball, who played his entire career with the Cleveland Indians. He spent 36 seasons overall with the Indians, as a player from 1928 to 1947 and as one of the game's most highly ...