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Post by psuhistory on Mar 9, 2014 11:58:38 GMT -5
Alone in Reds history, I won a World Series as a manager and as a front office executive for the Reds...
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rufralf
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Post by rufralf on Mar 9, 2014 17:34:03 GMT -5
Wasn't Moran, McKechnie or Anderson and it certainly wasn't Lou. A possible trick question?
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Post by psuhistory on Mar 9, 2014 17:46:06 GMT -5
Sadly, I didn't win my World Series as a manager with the Reds, though my record-setting pitcher briefly played for the Reds at the end of his career...
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Post by rufralf on Mar 9, 2014 18:32:56 GMT -5
I'm guessing your pitcher was Christy Matthewson who pitched a game or 2 for Reds before retiring. That would make the person in question manager John McGraw who won it all in 1905.
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Post by psuhistory on Mar 9, 2014 20:43:54 GMT -5
Excellent guess, since I knew Mathewson well during his managerial days in Cincinnati and knew McGraw well enough to send him a telegram in 1911, warning him to petition the League against allowing Hank O'Day to umpire games in Chicago if he wanted the Giants to have a chance of winning there...
My World Series win as a manager came before 1903, when the Series involved the best in the National League and the American Association. But a bunch of Reds fans are going to say it doesn't count?
I twice managed touring clubs in Cuba, including the 1908 tour that involved a club of Reds players, and I'm considered among the founders of baseball there...
I died in Cincinnati, and Spring Grove Cemetery has my bones: I deserve a little local memory...
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Post by rufralf on Mar 10, 2014 1:02:47 GMT -5
Frank Bancroft and Hoss Radbourn was his star pitcher. Outstanding question.
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Post by psuhistory on Mar 10, 2014 8:12:07 GMT -5
That's it, Rufralf, nice work. Bancroft managed the Providence Grays to the first World Series title in 1884, the season in which Radbourn set the single-season record for pitching wins at 59 (calculated as 60 at the time). Radbourn pitched for the Reds during part of the 1891 season, before voluntarily retiring due to ineffectiveness (11-13, 4.25, 1.36). Bancroft served as Chief Financial Officer of the Reds from 1892 until 1920, winning another championship in 1919 as an executive. He died in Cincinnati in March, 1921, aged 74, and is buried at Spring Grove...
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