Whos The Best Baseball player That Turned Out to be a manager?

Question

I think it is frank robinson

Answer 1

Rogers Hornsby was a really great player that was also a manager, while he played. In that time he led his team to the "World" Series twice. Winning one in 1926. He also won two triple crowns and MVPs.

Answer 2

A lot of great players managered. Its a question of whether they managed well. Greatest player to manage at all, I think is Ted Williams, though he was a junky manager (.429 win %).

There's a great story about when Williams was managing the Senators, that he got mad that they couldn't hit, and said to give him a bat. On five pitches, the fifty something year old Williams hit 3 homers and a fourth off the wall.

Other great players who became managers:

Cap Anson
Yogi Berra
"three Finger" Mordacai Brown
Ty Cobb
Walter Johnson
Nap Lajoie
Christy Matheson
Pete Rose
Kid Nichols
Frank Robinson
George Sisler
Al Spalding
Tris Speaker
Pie Traynor
Honus Wagner
Cy Young

All hall of fame players, except for Rose, who was an all time great anyhow.

Answer 3

Frank Robinson or Ted Williams

Answer 4

1. Frank Robinson
2. Pete Rose
3. Ted Williams
4. Dusty Baker
5. Felipe Alou

Answer 5

Pete Rose

Answer 6

Come on, its Pete Rose by a mile and a half. He might have gambled, but he did manage, and even player-managed for that matter.

Answer 7

Pete Rose. Hands down.

Answer 8

Asking it twice means answering it twice. Here are some more candidates:

Yogi Berra (Hall of Fame catcher for Yankees and Mets): led both Yankees and Mets to pennants. Many regard Berra as the greatest catcher who ever played the game; he was also an outfielder, and won the MVP three times.

Walter Johnson (Hall of Fame charter member, pitched for Washington Senators): managed the Senators and Indians. Johnson is of course a baseball legend. He was also famous for his gentle nature, something that cannot be said about Robinson (though Robinson is not a mean man, either).

Gil Hodges (first baseman for Brooklyn and LA Dodgers, also Mets); managed Washington Senators (2nd franchise) and Mets, led Mets to 1969 World Series victory. Over Frank Robinson (he wasn't a manager then) and the Baltimore Orioles, I might add. Hodges is not yet in the Hall of Fame but it is likely he will make it eventually.

Frank Chance (Hall of Fame first baseman-manager for Chicago Cubs, also managed Yankees): led the Cubs to four pennants and two World Series victories, including their last WS win in 1908. (Frank Robinson is good, but he would have to lead the Nationals - or the Cubs - to a World Series win to match that!)

Fred Hutchinson (pitcher for Detroit Tigers; very skilled and fierce competitor): managed the Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds; led Reds to 1961 pennant. Reds were contending in 1964 when he died of cancer. Also very successful manager of Seattle Rainiers in between major-league stints. He is not in the Hall of Fame, but his competitive spirit lives on in MLB's Hutch Award, given annually since 1965.

Roger Craig (pitcher for Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds): managed San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants; one a division title and one pennant for the Giants, alas his hard-luck status with the Mets (he once lost 19 consecutive games, five of them by a 1-0 score) followed him and an earthquake struck during the World Series, which was won by the Oakland Athletics. Okay, Craig is no Hall of Famer, but please forgive an old Mets fan for honoring him.

Concerning some of the others I mentioned earlier:

Bucky Harris (second baseman-manager for Washington Senators, also played for Detroit Tigers): managed the Senators, Tigers, Red Sox, Phillies and Yankees, leading the Senators to consecutive pennants in 1924 and 1925. He had World Series victories with the 1924 Senators and in 1947 with the Yankees. He is in the Hall of Fame.

Casey Stengel (outfielder for Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants and Boston Braves): managed Dodgers, Braves, Yankees and Mets. He is in the Hall of Fame as a manager, though his stats are marginally good enough as a player for the Hall too. Most of the teams he was hired to manage were dismal, like the early Mets, but success as a minor-league manager caused the Yankees to hire him in 1949 (replacing Bucky Harris), whereupon he led the Yankees to five consecutive World Series championships - no team, let alone manager, has come close since. The Yankees would win five more pennants and two more World Series under Stengel before forcibly retiring him ("I'll never make the mistake of turning 70 again!"). Stengel's managerial proteges included Yogi Berra, Gil Hodges, Ralph Houk and Hank Bauer.

Lou Boudreau (Hall of Fame shortstop-manager for Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox, also managed the Kansas City Athletics and Chicago Cubs): He was an MVP and highly regarded as a player; as a manager he invented the "Boudreau shift" to counter the pull-hitting Ted Williams - ironically, he later managed Williams. Boudreau was also a Cubs broadcaster. The Indians won the 1948 World Series under Boudreau.

John J. McGraw (Hall of Fame third baseman for NL Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals, original AL Baltimore Orioles- this franchise is now the Yankees - and New York Giants): managed both Orioles teams he played for and the Giants. He is third behind Babe Ruth and Ted Williams in on-base percentage and had the most wins of any National League manager; his wins are second only to Connie Mack (who managed for 50 years!) He won 11 pennants and 3 World Series with the Giants; in the other 22 years he was a manager his teams finished second 11 times and only had losing records twice. He is legitimately in the Hall of Fame both as a player and a manager. He taught Casey Stengel how to be a manager.

On Ted Williams: He had the misfortune to manage the second Washington Senators franchise (following Gil Hodges), which subsequently became the Texas Rangers. It was years before the Rangers were any good. Williams decided to go fishing. (After hitting, his greatest loves were fishing, hunting and the Jimmy Fund, a charity that he supported.)

On Frank Robinson: His playing stats were impeccable, but he didn't exactly draw the best of teams either. Still, he is a very capable manager.

Answer 9

Pete Rose - Stinks that he made so many mistakes after an incredible - heroic career!

Answer 10

i'm not sure but I thought I would let you know that you asked the same question twice.