Alex Grammas
| Alex Grammas | |||
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| Infielder / Manager | |||
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Born: April 3, 1926 Birmingham, Alabama |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 13, 1954, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 29, 1963, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .247 | ||
| Home runs | 12 | ||
| Runs batted in | 163 | ||
| Managerial record | 137–191 | ||
| Winning % | .418 | ||
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Alexander Peter Grammas (born April 3, 1926) is an American former professional baseball infielder and manager. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Grammas played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Redlegs and the Chicago Cubs. He finished his career with a .969 overall fielding percentage. He was not usually an everyday player, playing as a reserve with the Reds and Cubs.
Grammas served as the third base coach for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1965–69. He began his big-league managerial career when he was brought in to finish out the Pirates' 1969 season after Larry Shepard was fired as the team's manager. Although Grammas guided the Bucs to a 4-1 finish, Danny Murtaugh took over as the team's manager in 1970.
Grammas then returned to the Cincinnati Reds as third base coach under Sparky Anderson, spending six seasons in that post during the "Big Red Machine" era, including service on Cincinnati's 1972 National League champions and the 1975 world champions.
After the Milwaukee Brewers fired Del Crandall as manager near the end of the 1975 season, his place was taken on an interim basis by Harvey Kuenn. But following the 1975 World Series, the Brewers set their sights on Grammas as their next skipper, and signed him to a three-year contract in November 1975. Milwaukee Brewers President Bud Selig said that Grammas was the only manager they wanted. He added, "There is no question in our mind, we got the best man available. In the years I've been in baseball, never has anybody been recommended by as broad a spectrum of people as Alex Grammas."
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