Joe McCarthy (manager)
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Joe McCarthy as Red Sox manager
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Born: April 21, 1887 Philadelphia |
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Died: January 13, 1978 (aged 90) Buffalo, New York |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 13, 1926, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
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| June 18, 1950, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Games | 3487 | ||
| Win–Loss Record | 2125–1333 | ||
| Winning % | .615 | ||
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| Member of the National | |||
 Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Inducted | 1957 | ||
| Vote | Veterans Committee | ||
Joseph Vincent McCarthy (April 21, 1887 – January 13, 1978) was a manager in Major League Baseball, most renowned for his leadership of the "Bronx Bombers" teams of the New York Yankees from 1931 to 1946. The first manager to win pennants with both National and American League teams, he won nine league titles overall and seven World Series championships – a record tied only by Casey Stengel. McCarthy was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1957.
McCarthy's career winning percentages in both the regular season (.615) and postseason (.698, all in the World Series) are the highest in major league history. His 2,125 career victories rank eighth all-time in major league history for managerial wins, and he ranks first all-time for the Yankees with 1,460 wins.
Born in Philadelphia, where he grew up idolizing Athletics manager Connie Mack, McCarthy is among a handful of successful major league managers who never played in the majors. After attending Niagara University in 1905 and 1906 on a baseball scholarship, he spent the next 15 years in the minor leagues, primarily as a second baseman with the Toledo Mud Hens, Buffalo Bisons, and Louisville Colonels. In 1916 he signed with the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League—then considered a third major league—but the league folded before he could play a game with them.
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