Major League Baseball Coaches

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Thanks, Merkle!

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Originally Posted by Merkle923

The Yankee pitching coach who lasted two-and-a-half months on the job in 1979 (kinda long for one of them in those days) before Billy Martin returned as manager and brought his buddy Art Fowler back to go drinking with.

I once compiled a chronological list of Yankee coaches during the George "I Hate Them More Than I Do Managers" George Steinbrenner era. I think this is the correct sequence:

1975 Whitey Ford (ill, replaced mid-year by Cloyd Boyer)
1976 Bob Lemon
1977 Cloyd Boyer, Art Fowler (joined team late in year)
1978 Art Fowler (fired when Billy Martin was); Clyde King
1979 Tom Morgan, Art Fowler
1980 Stan Williams
1981 Stan Williams (fired), Jerry Walker (interim), Clyde King
1982 Jerry Walker (fired), Stan Williams (fired), Clyde King, Sammy Ellis (replaced King when King became the third manager of the season)
1983 Art Fowler (fired), Jeff Torborg (shifted from bullpen coach, Sammy Ellis replaced him as bullpen coach)
1984 Sammy Ellis and Jeff Torborg (co-coaches until June 18), Mark Connor (Torborg moved to bullpen)
1985 Mark Connor and Jeff Torborg (co-coaches), Bill Monbouquette (replaced Connor, August)
1986 Sammy Ellis (fired), Mark Connor
1987 Mark Connor, Stan Williams
1988 Art Fowler (fired), Stan Williams
1990-92 Mark Connor

I assume this was what Morgan was wondering about when I caught him with my lens.

What a great photo! Thank you. There's an art to it that's lacking in most of the Brace images.