Bob Coleman

Catcher / Coach / Manager

Born: September 26, 1890
Huntingburg, Indiana

Died: July 16, 1959 (aged 68)
Boston, Massachusetts

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

June 13, 1913, for the Pittsburgh Pirates

Last MLB appearance

September 9, 1916, for the Cleveland Indians

MLB statistics

Batting average

.241

Home runs

Runs batted in

Games managed

295

Managerial record

128–165

Winning %

.437

Teams

As Player

Pittsburgh Pirates (1913–1914)
Cleveland Indians (1916)

As Manager

Boston Braves (1943, 1944–1945)

Career highlights and awards

Won 2,496 games as a minor league manager
Three-I League Manager of the Year
(1935, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1946, 1951)

Robert Hunter Coleman (September 26, 1890 – July 16, 1959) was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. He also was one of the most successful managers in the history of minor league baseball, his career extending (with interruptions caused by Major League service) from 1919 through 1957; he won 10 regular season pennants and 5 league titles. He won his first pennant with the 1922 Terre Haute Tots of the Three-I League, he also won a pennant with the 1935 Springfield Senators, also of the Three-I League. The rest of his titles came with the Evansville, Indiana, franchises in the Three-I League.

A native of Huntingburg, Indiana, Coleman played just three seasons in the Major Leagues, with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1913–14) and the Cleveland Indians (1916). The right-handed-hitting catcher batted .241 in 116 total games.

In 1919, at age 28, he embarked on his managerial career with the Mobile Bears of the Class A Southern Association. By 1926 he was a coach for the Boston Red Sox, but the following season he returned to the minor leagues, and in 1928 he became manager of the Evansville Hubs of the Class B Three-I League, where he would spend much of the rest of his baseball career. He managed Evansville for 20 seasons over four separate tours of duty (1928–31; 1938–42; 1946–49; 1951–57), and won eight pennants there (1930, 1938, 1941, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1957) including his final season.

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