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Taking it from the top:

1) Frank Oceak coached for the Pirates from 1958-64 and 1970-72 and the Reds in 1965. He was the third base coach who shook Bill Mazeroski's hand as he circled the bases after winning the 1960 World Series. He had a 17-year minor league career, but never played an inning in the majors. He also served as a minor league manager from 1942-57 and again from 1966-69.

2) Harry Craft managed the Houston Colt 45s from their onset in 1962 through 1964. He first skippered the Athletics from 1957-59 and was one of the Cubs' "College of Coaches" in 1961, officially managing 16 games. His major league playing career, all with the Reds, ran from 1937-42. At that point, he was dealt to the Yankees and sent to the minors. He went to Navy flight school and served from 1944-45. He coached the Athletics from 1955 until his battlefield promotion in '57 and also coached with the Cubs in 1960. He was a minor league manager from 1949-56, and was Mickey Mantle's first professional manager.

3) Johnny Sain had already made his rep as a championship pitcher when he retired in 1955. In 1954, recalibrated save stats showed he was the best closer in baseball that year, earning 22 saves for the Yankees. His first big league coaching job came in 1959 for the Athletics, but after a year he returned to his Arkansas car dealership. But he rejoined the Yankees as their pitching coach from 1961-63, resigning when Yogi Berra was named manager. He coached the Twins from 1965-66, the Tigers from 1967-69 (where he coached 30-game winner Denny McLain). He came on hard times, serving as White Sox minor league pitching instructor in 1970, then coached the White Sox from 1971-75. Coming full circle he was pitching coach for Braves in 1977, again from 1985-86. In between, he worked in the Braves' farm system.

4) Jim Hegan had a chance, after a 17-year major league playing career (15 with the Indians), to coach for the Yankees from 1960-73. Four of those seasons, his son Mike was also a Yankee. Jim went on to coach for the Tigers from 1974-78 and returned to the Yankees for the 1979 and 1980 seasons.

5) Solly Hemus looks out of place in a Cleveland uniform -- he only coached there 1964-65 -- because it seemed as if he were a Cardinals lifer. He played for the Redbirds from 1949-56 and again in 1959. In between, he logged two-plus seasons with the Phillies. He was a rare player-manager in '59 and skippered the Cardinals for two more seasons before winding up being a coach on the original 1962 Mets. He spent one more season in New York before moving to Cleveland for rthe fnal two seasons of his career.