2004 William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the '60s, dies at 93
1999 Allan Carr, "Producer, manager", Grease, dies at 62
1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1997 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
1997 San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1997 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns, he is named AL Manager of Year
1997 Rudolf Bing, opera manager (New York Met Opera), dies at 95
1997 Colonel Tom Parker, manager, promoted Elvis, dies at 87
1996 Frank, brother of Yank manager Joe Torre, receives a heart transplant
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as Los Angeles Dodger manager
1996 "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Jock Wallace, football player/manager, dies at 60
1996 Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 Ronald George Hayward, political manager, dies at 78
1996 Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77
1996 Harry Potts, footballer/manager, dies at 75
1995 Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60
1995 Harry Craft, baseball manager, dies at 80
1995 John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67
1995 James Bullock, colliery manager, dies at 92
1995 Tiger manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1995 Tony Secunda, rock band manager, dies at 54
1994 Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1994 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine), dies at 80
1994 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager, dies at 77
1994 Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
1992 Don Baylor appointed 1st manager of Colorado Rockies
1992 Rene Lachemann hired as Florida Marlins 1st manager
1992 Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit's winningest manager
1992 Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83
1991 Buck Showalter replaces Stump Merrill as New York Yankee manager
1991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
1991 Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1991 John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians
1991 Comedian Jackie Mason marries his manager Jyll Rosenfeld (37)
1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33
1991 John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 H J of Royen, manager Dutch (Concertgebouw Orch), dies at 52
1990 Esther Canseco calls Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa a "punk" for not starting husband Jose in the World Series
1990 Braves replace manager Russ Nixon with GM Bobby Cox
1990 Stump Merrill replaces Bucky Dent as New York Yankee manager
1990 Mets replace manager Davey Johnson with Buddy Harrelson
1990 New York Mets fire manager Davey Johnson and hire Bud Harrelson
1989 Billy Martin, New York Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
1989 Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
1989 Bucky Dent replaces Dallas Green as New York Yankee manager
1989 Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone
1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete Rose is under investigation
1989 Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as manager of New York Yankees
1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
1988 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 Dodger Tommy Lasorda wins 1,000th game as manager tops Philadelphia, 4-2
1988 Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1988 Mike Tyson sues to break contract with manager Bill Cayton
1988 Yank manager Billy Martin's 5th term ends, Lou Pinella named manager
1988 Reds manager Pete Rose is suspended for 30 days for pushing an ump
1988 New York Met Davey Johnson becomes 2nd manager to record 400 victory in 1st 4 years (Al Lopez did it 1st)
1988 Frank Robinson replaces Cal Ripkin as manager of Baltimore Orioles
1988 Philippe de Rothschild, Bordeaux Vineyard manager, dies in Paris at 86
1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time
1987 David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Husker Du), commits suicide at 24
1986 Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly
1986 Royals announce manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
1986 Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered
1986 Sparky Anderson is 1st to win 600 games as manager in both leagues
1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1985 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
1985 Lou Piniella named New York Yankee manager
1985 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 4th time
1984 Walter Alston, Baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 72
1984 Sparky Anderson is 1st manager to win 100 games in both leagues
1983 Yogi Berra named Yankee manager for 2nd time
1983 Despite being in 1st place in NL East, Phils fire manager Pat Corrales
1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time
1982 Clyde King named Yankee manager
1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1982 Gene Mauch resigns as manager of Angels
1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of Oakland A's
1982 Clyde King replaces Gene Michaels as New York Yankee manager
1982 Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager
1982 Gene Michael becomes New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1982 Yanks fire manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael
1981 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1981 Bob Lemon named New York Yankee manager for 2nd time
1981 Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser
1981 Mariners manager Maury Wills is fired and replaced by Rene Lachemann
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1980 Expos Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game as a manager
1980 Seattle Mariners replace manager Darrell Johnson with Maury Wills
1980 A's manager Billy Martin restrained by umps from attacking a fan
1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
1979 Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
1979 Baltimore manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1978 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
1978 On Old Timer's Day, New York Yankees announce that Billy Martin will return as New York Yankee manager in 1980 and Bob Lemon will become GM
1978 Bob Lemon replaces Billy Martin as Yankee manager
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson
1978 New York Yankee manager Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
1978 Larry Doby becomes manager of Chicago White Sox
1978 Padres fire Al Dark (2nd manager ever fired during spring training)
1978 Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (New York Yankees), dies at 96
1977 Billy Hunter becomes Rangers' 4th manager in 6 days
1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg
1976 Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 59
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees)
1976 Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager
1976 Cleve manager Frank Robinson last game as a player
1976 Pieter Balledux, actor/stage manager/resistance fighter, dies at 89
1976 Johan[nes A] Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1975 Casey Stengel, New York Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1975 Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers)
1974 Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 New York Yankees sign Bill Virdon as manager
1973 Yanks sign Dick Williams as manager, overturned later by AL Pres
1973 A's manager Dick Williams quits after A's beat Mets in World Series
1973 Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager
1973 Billy Martin named manager of Texas Rangers
1973 Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
1973 Ernie Banks fills in for Cubs mgr Whitey Lockman who is ejected during the game, thus technically becoming baseball's 1st black manager
1972 Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros
1972 George Wiess, General Manager (New York Yankees), dies at 78
1972 Gil Hodges, manager (New York Mets), dies of heart attack at 57
1972 Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager
1971 Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement
1971 Rolling Stones sue manager Allen Klein
1970 Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers
1969 Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
1969 Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series
1969 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
1968 Billy Martin named manager of Twins
1968 New York Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
1968 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
1967 Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's
1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
1967 Brian Epstein, rock manager (Beatles), dies of drug overdose at 32
1967 Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's
1966 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1966 Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
1965 Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets
1965 New York Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1964 Yanks fire Manager Yogi Berra
1964 Kevin Kennedy, baseball manager for the Texas Rangers
1963 Missy Hyatt, born in Atlanta, Georgia, wrestling manager, WCW, ECW
1961 Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein
1961 Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer
1961 Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager for the Frankfurt Galaxy
1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1960 Ralph Houk, 41, replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1960 Giants hire Tom Sheehan as baseball's oldest debuting manager (66)
1960 Balt manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1957 Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
1956 White Sox manager Marty Marion resigns. AL Lopez replaces him
1956 AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
1956 Mark Daniel Gearan, born in Gardner, Massachusetts, campaign manager, Al Gore
1956 Connie Mack, baseball manager (Philadelphia A's, 1901-50), dies at 93
1955 Clark Griffith, baseball player/manager (New York Yankees), dies at 85
1955 Patricia J. Engfer, general manager, Hyatt Regency-Orlando
1954 Trevor Francis, British soccer manager
1953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager
1953 Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954
1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1953 Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Baltimore Orioles
1953 Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Philadelphia A's
1953 Nick Leyva, baseball manager, Phillies 1988-91
1953 Margaret L. Augustine, born in Buffalo, New York, project manager, Biosphere 2
1952 Rogers Hornsby replaces Luke Sewell, as Cincinnati Reds manager
1952 St. Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1951 Kevin Keegan, British soccer player/manager, Newcastle United
1950 Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
1950 After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1950 Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1950 Connie Mack retires as manager of A's after 50 years
1950 Connie Mack named Honorary Manager of the All-Star Game
1950 Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
1949 Wendy Pritchard, Australian women's field hockey team manager 1996 Olympics
1948 Casey Stengel takes over as Yankee manager
1948 Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Philadelphia, New York Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott and Burt Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1948 Tommy Matola, rock manager/CEO, CBS records
1947 Former Yank manager Joe McCarthy signs to manage Red Sox
1947 Andy Roxburgh, soccer manager, Scotland
1946 Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1946 Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th and final HR
1945 Michael Joyce, stage manager
1945 Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him
1944 Joe McCarthy returns as Yankee manager after an illness
1944 Cito Gaston, MLB manager for the Toronto Blue Jays
1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1943 Andre Antoine, French stage manager (Theatre Antoine), dies at 85
1943 Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies
1943 Lou Piniella, outfielder/manager, New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners
1943 Lou Pinella, Yankee manager, 1969 AL rookie of the year
1943 Andy Roxburgh, manager soccer team, Scotland
1943 Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1943 Davy Johnson, baseball manager for the New York Mets
1943 Jim Lefebvre, Hawthorne California, baseball manager for the Seattle Mariners
1943 Terry Venables, British soccer player/manager
1941 Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager
1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1941 Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1940 Tony Secunda, rock band manager
1940 Joseph Torre, outfield/manager, Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP
1939 Colin Webb, general manager, Press Assn
1938 Babe Ruth applies for job of St. Louis Browns' manager
1938 Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger, New York Yankees
1937 Dick Howser, shortstop, Kansas City A's, manager for the Kansas City Royals
1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1936 Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager
1935 Cal Ripken Sr, baseball manager for the Baltimore Orioles
1935 Jock Wallace, soccer star/manager
1935 Frank Robinson, baseball player/manager, MVP 1961-NL 1966-AL
1935 Jack Charlton, soccer manager, Rep of Ireland
1935 Peter Grant, rock band manager
1935 Brian Clough, soccer manager
1934 Brian Epstein, rock manager, Beatles
1934 Wilbert Robinson, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers), dies
1934 Dallas Green, baseball manager, Phillies, Yankees
1934 John J McGraw, manager (New York Giants), dies at 60
1934 Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 George "Sparky" Anderson, South Dakota, baseball manager, Reds, Tigers
1933 Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager
1932 Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators
1932 Mickey Stewart, manager, England Cricket Team
1932 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs
1932 John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
1931 Whitey Herzog, baseball manager for the St. Louis Cardinals
1931 Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankee manager
1931 Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager
1930 Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
1930 Earl Weaver, born in St. Louis, Missouri, manager, Baltimore Orioles 1968-82, 85-86
1930 David Sexton, soccer manager
1929 Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager
1929 Miller Huggins, manager (New York Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1929 Dick Williams, baseball player, manager, including Seattle 1986-87
1928 Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager, New York Yankees, Oakland A's
1927 Joseph Wilbur Adcock, manager/player, Braves
1927 John Eric Tieman, production manager, The Guardian
1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1926 Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1926 Squire Bancroft, [Butterfield], actor/manager (Haymarket), dies at 84
1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager, Tate Gallery
1925 White Sox manager Eddie Collins gets 3,000 hit
1925 Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1924 Gil Hodges, baseball player/manager, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Mets
1924 Pat Moran, manager (Cin Reds), dies of Bright's Disease
1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
1923 Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals
1921 Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager, dies
1920 Harry Potts, soccer star/manager
1920 Bob Lemon, pitcher, Cleveland Indians, /manager, New York Yankees, 1978
1919 Ralph Houk, baseball manager, Yankees, Tigers
1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army
1919 Bob Paisley, English soccer player/trainer/manager of FC Liverpool
1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army
1918 Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him "for indifferent play"
1918 William Rigney, baseball manager for the San Francisco Giants
1917 Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager, Pittsburgh Pirates
1917 Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager, 1948 AP Athlete of Year
1917 Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1916 Toby Rowland, theatrical manager
1916 Dodger manager Wilbert Robinson given $5,000 bonus
1915 Harry Craft, baseball manager
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1914 Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1914 Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic, Dance Magazine
1913 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager
1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
1913 Frank Chance becomes Yankee manager
1912 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), dies
1911 Walter Alston, baseball manager, Dodgers
1911 Clark Griffith is named manager of Washington Senators
1910 Ronald Russell, actor/manager, We are Angels, Little Dorrit
1910 George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager, Brentford
1908 Alfonso Lopez, baseball player, AL Manager of the year 1959
1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1907 Bill Dickey, New York Yankee hall-of-fame catcher, 1928-43, /manager, 1946
1906 Hugh Jennings resigns as Balt manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1906 Leo Durocher, born in Massachusetts, baseball manager, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants
1903 James Bullock, colliery manager
1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1902 John McGraw named manager of New York Giants
1902 John J McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years)
1902 Philippe de Rothschild, Paris, manager, Bordeaux Vineyard
1902 Rudolph Bing, opera manager, New York Metropolitan Opera
1899 John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager
1897 Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager, My Fair Lady
1896 Bucky Harris, baseball manager, Phillies, Yankees
1890 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, Yankees, 1949-60, /NY Met's 1st
1886 Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter
1883 Harold "Hal" Chase, baseball player/manager
1881 Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager, New York Yankees
1879 Roger P Bresnaham, hall of fame catcher/manager
1877 Frank Chance, baseball player/manager, Tinkers to Evers to Chance
1873 Lilian Mary Baylis, manager, Old Vic and Sadler's Wells Theater
1872 Lena Ashwell, England, actress/theatrical manager, Kingsway
1869 Aurelien FM Lugne-Poe, French actor/stage manager, La Parade
1869 Clark Griffith, Missouri, baseball player/manager, New York Yankees
1862 Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager, Philadelphia A's 1900-1950
1859 Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager, Chicago White Sox
1853 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager, Trilby
1847 Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author, Dracula
1841 Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
1832 Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager
1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris
1814 Philip Astley, theatre manager, dies
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