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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Oct 22, 2013 11:18:28 GMT -5
Of all the Reds 61 managers, I could most likely be regarded as the worst of the bunch. I'm the only manager with more than 300 games to sport a sub .400 winning percentage. My teams routinely lost more than 90 games.
The Reds were my second managing job; in my first, despite a really bad first year (finishing 50 1/2 games behind the Yankees), I led the Browns to a couple of winning years.
Who am I?
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Post by schellis on Oct 22, 2013 18:56:13 GMT -5
The Reds were pretty bad in the early 30's. Had to look up the manager those years...yes they were awful so I'm going with Dan Howley. THough it wouldn't surprise me if Boone had a worse record
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Post by dukecrunchybagel on Oct 23, 2013 11:56:32 GMT -5
The Reds were pretty bad in the early 30's. Had to look up the manager those years...yes they were awful so I'm going with Dan Howley. THough it wouldn't surprise me if Boone had a worse record Bravo, schellis. Dapper (or Howling) Dan Howley set the Reds mark for futility as a manager. He did well with the low-budget St. Louis Browns, getting them over .500, but he couldn't replicate that work in his three-year stint with the Reds from 1930-32. He finished with a 177-285 record which was "good" for a .383 winning percentage. The team lost 94, 96, and 95 games, each year and only managed to finish out of the cellar in 1930 over the 52-102 Phillies. Howley was plagued with some pretty awful pitching -- Eppa Rixey's and Pete Donohue's careers were both winding down, and such non-memorable names as Ray Kolp, Benny Frey, Si Johnson, and Larry Benton were pretty darn bad. There was almost no consistancy in the offense -- the outfielders were constantly changing over due to inefeectiveness going through Curt Walker, Wally Roetger, Estel Crabtree, Harry Heilman (who actually did really well in 1930), and Bob Meusel. Tony Cucinello was the only consistant offensive contributor before being traded in 1932 in the Ernie Lombardi trade, and regular SS Leo the Lip Durocher, may have been a great manager, but couldn't generate a OPS over .600. |
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