Bobby Bragan
| Bobby Bragan | |||
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Bragan as manager of the Braves in 1963.
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Born: October 30, 1917 Birmingham, Alabama |
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Died: January 21, 2010 (aged 92) Fort Worth, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 16, 1940, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 27, 1948, for the Brooklyn Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .240 | ||
| Home runs | 15 | ||
| Runs batted in | 172 | ||
| Games managed | 927 | ||
| Win–loss record | 443–478 | ||
| Winning % | .481 | ||
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Robert Randall Bragan (October 30, 1917 – January 21, 2010) was an American shortstop, catcher, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball. He also was an influential executive in minor league baseball. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
On August 16, 2005, Bragan came out of retirement to manage the independent Central League Fort Worth Cats for one game, making him — at 87 years, nine months, and 16 days old — the oldest manager in professional baseball annals (besting by one week Connie Mack, the manager and part-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics). Always known as an innovator with a sense of humor — and an umpire-baiter — Bragan was ejected in the third inning of his "comeback", thus also becoming the oldest person in any capacity to be ejected from a professional baseball game.
Bragan died on January 21, 2010 of a heart attack at his home in Fort Worth.
During his Major League managerial career, Bragan never skippered a game past his 49th birthday. He managed the Pittsburgh Pirates (1956–57), Cleveland Indians (1958), and Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves (1963–66), each time getting fired in the mid-season of his final campaign. In Cleveland, he lasted a total of only 67 games of his maiden season before his dismissal — at the time of his firing, his was the shortest stint for a Cleveland Indians manager. His career big-league managerial win-loss record was below .500: 443–478 (.481) and he was the first manager of the Braves when they relocated to Atlanta.
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