Re: Best overall Player AND Manager?

On Feb 15, 4:38 pm, Dave Bismo <b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Boudreau, mentioned earlier, was a good manager and
a Hall of Fame > player.


Boudreau had a winning percentage under 500 in 2404 games,
but it doesn't tell me how good/bad a manager he was. Rogers
Hornsby also managed 1000+ games with a winning percentage
just above .450. Both won one world series as player-manager.

How did Boudreau become a manager when only 24? Was his
an unusually old head on young shoulders which came in
handy when a sudden vacancy arose? Today Kevin Youkilis
or Derek Jeter or Bernie Williams or Trot Nixon stand no
chance of being made player-manager; do they?

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