Major League Baseball Coaches

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Did not know that the 1975 SSPC set had nice color portraits of several San Diego coaches.


Here's Whitey, one of the original Pads coaching staff. I've seen in him in black and white before, but not color. (He wore his brown & yellow from 1969-1979.)

Bonus:

Whitey in the new 1978 uniforms, from his Wikipedia page.

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After taking a four-year break to run the recreation programs for the Tennessee Dept. of Corrections, Sisler returned to coaching with the 1975 Padres. Fired as hitting coach after 1976, he returned with the 1979 Mets, but quit during the 1980 season.

Thus providing actual evidence that people would rather spend time in prison than with the Joe Torre Mets.

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Davenport had left his long-term organization (San Francisco) because the Giants wouldn't promote him from managing Phoenix (1971-1973) when they fired Charlie Fox. (Instead they hired Wes Westrum. Yes, really.)

So Davenport spent 1974-1975 coaching for John McNamara in San Diego. Then in 1976, Bill Rigney returned for one season at the helm, and Davenport went back to the bay. (He coached under five different managers before getting his own [disastrous] turn at the helm in 1985.)

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We have "Philliabuck" in the Topps Vault shot of his coaching the 1966 Indians, but here he is with his first coaching gig, 1961-1963, under Bob Scheffing in Detroit.



Offered for sale by Steiner Sports.

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We had some B/W images of Red with the 1977 A's (after Keith Hernandez and the 1976 Cardinals "got Red fired", as Keith glumly recounted on a Mets telecast once), but this Doug McWilliams Hall of Fame color version is, naturally, a cut above:

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More McWilliams; here's Don McMahon marking time in Minnesota (1976) between his two stints as the Giants' pitching coach.

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Honestly surprised this isn't on here already. Babe in his one season coaching 1B for Brooklyn, offered on Etsy in a poster version by Bygone Era

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The former NY Giants pitcher starts a 4-year coaching stint for the Pirates, under manager Jewel Ens.



From the current RMY auction. (I've removed the yellowing and tweaked the shadows.) The fellow at the left is identified as Phil Sinnott…which would help if i had a clue who that was. (I know Phil Lynott and Joe Sinnott, but it's neither of them.)

George Gibson took over as manager for 1932, and was in turn replaced during the 1934 season by Pie Traynor. Traynor let Crandall go from the staff for 1935, and replaced him with…Jewel Ens.

The Wheel in the Sky keeps on turning
Oh, I don't know where I'll be tomorrow…

(With acknowledgements to Robert Fleischmann)

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Uniform variant, with Ed sporting the White Sox's 1929-only striped blue cap.



From the same RMY auction, with my once more eliminating the yellowing and dealing with the shadow. Unfortunately, the picture had too much glare behind Ed, so I was limited in what I could do.

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Berry never had a formal major league coaching stint, but according to Jerry Reuss (who was starting his photography hobby as his career was winding down), Berry was working throughout the ChiSox organization as a roving batting, outfield, and baserunning instructor.

Here he is with the big club at Comiskey, on May 11, 1988.

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Rowe's picture in the Coaches Pack shows him during his 7-year stint (1992-1998) as the Brewer's pitching coach, but while his first coaching gig (1988 White Sox) was nearly as brief as his playing career (1963 Mets), that's a year more than most get.



May 10, 1988. The White Sox finish their road trip at Yankee Stadium, and Jerry Reuss snaps Rowe as he visits Monument Park.

(Reuss also took a picture of Ricky Horton at the monuments, but we know what Ricky looks like.)