Buck Showalter

Showalter with the Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore Orioles – No. 26

Manager

Born: May 23, 1956 (age 60)
DeFuniak Springs, Florida

Bats: Left

Throws: Left

MLB statistics
(through 2016 Season)

Games

2,745

Win–loss record

1,429–1,315

Winning %

.521

Postseason Games

Postseason Win–loss record

9–14

Postseason Winning %

.391

Teams

Career highlights and awards

3× AL Manager of the Year (1994, 2004, 2014)

William Nathaniel "Buck" Showalter III (born May 23, 1956) is an American Major League Baseball (MLB) manager for the Baltimore Orioles. He has previously served as manager of the New York Yankees (1992–1995), Arizona Diamondbacks (1998–2000), and Texas Rangers (2003–2006). He is also formerly a professional baseball player and a television analyst for ESPN.

A three-time American League (AL) Manager of the Year, Showalter has earned a reputation for building baseball teams into postseason contenders in short periods of time. He helped the Yankees rise from the bottom half of the AL East to first place before a players' strike prematurely ended the 1994 campaign. Under his watch, the Diamondbacks made their first-ever playoff appearance in only its second year of existence. He left both franchises just prior to seasons when they won the World Series. During his first minor league season with the Fort Lauderdale Yankees he picked up the nickname "Buck" from manager Ed Napoleon because of his tendency to sit around the clubhouse "buck naked".

Showalter, who was born in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, on May 23, 1956, grew up in nearby Century. His father, William Nathaniel II, served 23 years as a teacher and principal at Century High School, from which the younger Showalter eventually graduated. Before becoming a teacher, his father had been a Little All-American fullback in 1940 at Milligan College, and had considered a career in the National Football League with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but chose to become a high school coach instead.

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