Paul Owens (baseball)
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| First baseman / general manager / manager | |||
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Born: February 7, 1924 Salamanca, New York |
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Died: December 26, 2003 (aged 79) Woodbury, New Jersey |
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| Minor League Baseball debut | |||
| 1951, for the Olean Oilers | |||
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| 1959, for the Bakersfield Bears | |||
| MLB statistics (through 1984) |
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| Games managed | 319 | ||
| Win–loss record | 161–158 | ||
| Winning % | .505 | ||
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As player As general manager As manager |
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Paul Francis Owens (February 7, 1924 – December 26, 2003) was an American front office executive and manager in Major League Baseball.
Owens' entire Major League career was spent with the Philadelphia Phillies. He was the general manager and principal architect of the 1980 Phillies, the third Philadelphia club to win a National League pennant and the first Phillies team to win a World Series—breaking a 97-year streak of futility dating to the team's founding in 1883. He was general manager of the Phillies from June 3, 1972, through the end of 1984, and twice (1972; 1983–84) added the title of field manager to his job description. In 1983 he took the managerial reins of the Phillies in midyear and led them to their fourth pennant, but lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the 1983 World Series.
Nicknamed "The Pope" because of his resemblance to Pope Paul VI, Owens was born in Salamanca, New York, and attended St. Bonaventure University. Owens' professional playing career began in 1951 at the relatively advanced age of 27. Prior to 1951, Owens had spent the first several years of his baseball career with the Salamanca Merchants (a still extant team) in what was then the Suburban League, the local Town Team Baseball circuit.
Owens played exclusively at the lower ends of the minor leagues, with his active career largely centered in his native upstate New York. A first baseman who batted and threw right-handed, he twice (1951, 1957) batted .407 with the Olean Oilers of the Class D PONY League (now the New York–Penn League) and set a league record by hitting safely in 38 consecutive games in 1951. During his relatively brief playing career, Owens compiled a lifetime average of .374.
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