Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)
First manager to win pennants in both leagues.
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He won nine league pennants and seven World Series championships, a record tied only by Casey Stengel.[1]
Life and work
He spent 15 years in the minor leagues as an infielder, primarily with Toledo, Buffalo, and Louisville.[2][3] McCarthy began his managerial career as a player-manager in Wilkes-Barre in 1913.[4] He took over as manager of Louisville on July 22, 1919, and won his first game, 6-2.[5] McCarthy's Yankees won 94 games in his first season and the World Series in his second year, 1932.[3][6]
He later managed the Boston Red Sox from 1948 to 1950, resigning in June 1950.[6][3] McCarthy died of pneumonia at age 90 in Buffalo, New York.[7] During a 12-year span, the teams McCarthy managed captured eight American League pennants and seven World Series championships.[3] Alcoholism led to McCarthy's resignation from the Yankees early in the 1946 season.[6]
What the cited sources add
The Baseball Hall of Fame account states that under McCarthy the Yankees averaged almost 96 wins per season over his 15 full seasons.[3] The SABR biography notes that McCarthy's former pitcher Joe Page said, "I hated his guts, but there never was a better manager".[5] The SABR account also reports that McCarthy made four errors in seven chances at third base in a 1911 game.[5] The Hall of Fame source describes McCarthy's nickname "Marse Joe" as short for "Master Joe," reflecting his firm grip on his teams.[3]
The SABR biography recounts that McCarthy was awarded to Louisville in the dispersal of players from the Federal League.[5] The Hall of Fame plaque quotes Joe DiMaggio saying, "Never a day went by when you didn't learn something from Joe McCarthy".[3]
References
- Wikipedia, "Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "McCarthy, Joe | Baseball Hall of Fame", Baseballhall.org, January 13, 1978 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: McMurray, "Joe McCarthy", Society for American Baseball Research (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "McCarthy, Joe | Baseball Hall of Fame", Baseballhall.org, January 13, 1978. facts only, no text reused. baseballhall.org
- Wikipedia, "Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Joe McCarthy", Baseball Reference; "Joe McCarthy", Baseball Reference (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Joe McCarthy", SABR. facts only, no text reused. sabr.org
- Wikipedia, "Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vaccaro, "Emperors and Idiots: The Hundred Year Rivalry Between the Yankees and Red Sox, From the Very Beginning to the End of the Curse", Doubleday, 2006 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Joe McCarthy (baseball manager)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Joe McCarthy", Baseball-statistics.com; Baseball in Buffalo (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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