Show Off Your Best Manager Card!
 

Love the threads with scans and was wondering if you had any "manager" cards you think are good ones. Do you think manager cards should be respected at the same level of player cards? Thanks for sharing.

Yes!

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Do player / managers count? This card shows "3B" on it, but Little Napoleon was also managing the Giants at that time too. Behind only Connie Mack, McGraw is the second winningest manager ever.

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Deal
 

What is the deal with player/managers? Especially in the pre-war era....A little history lesson would be appreciated. I think it was a pretty common thing? Would the manager just insert himself whenever he felt he could benefit the team kind of thing?

Here's mine...........

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Koester D383
 

Casey Stengel

wow, great image on that one Matt!

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Nice Jeff!!!

Green border variation.

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Not a card but a piece of original art from The Sporting News of the Ol' Perfessor:

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Not his Manager card,, but Huggins did go on to manage the Yankees with an all star line up....

Fred Clarke

We're out of toilet paper again!
 

Great card of Mack, and the title of this reply says it all!

Hard to follow, "Connie on the Crapper"
 

Never seen that Bobby Cox before. What set did it come out of?

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Here's an Ott manager card

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No favorite, but I have a favorite team, despite current ownership, and here are two of the team's best managers:

One of my favorite manager cards:

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McGraw, Evers, Jones, Jennings
 

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The Bobby Cox was a Venezuelan League issue, I believe 1974.

Favorite Manager Card
 

Huggins

Old school

Ken:

Nice Harry Wright, a recent pick-up?

Thanks Phil! REA 2009.

James Fox, Manager Columbus (GA) "Foxes" -- 1909-1915:

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Talk about a slump
 

With a posture and demeanor such as shown, it doesn't look as if James Fox could have been much of a leader as a manager

Brian

here is one of my favorites !

managers
 

hard to pick.
my wife always loves the 1915 stallings postaco, so i'd best mention that one.
i'll probably have to pick the delong mcmanus but my wall quivers as i'm leaving so many favs out.
great thread.
all the best,
barry

tim
 

many thanks!!!
best,
barry

I've always been fond of this one:

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1914 Managers
 

All of these guys were Managers or Player-Managers in 1914:

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Here are some more 1914 Managers:

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In 1924, the "Boy Manager," at age 27 and in ...
 

his FIRST year as player-manager (he played 143 games at 2nd base), led the Washington Senators to their ONLY World Series Championship. Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris even hit 2 home runs in the 1924 World Series (he had only 2 HRs out of his 1,297 regular-season hits during his entire major league playing career)! It don't get no moh betta than this!!

Bucky's Senators repeated as A.L. Champions in 1925, but unfortunately lost the World Series to the Pirates in 7 games. However, he did win a second World Series Championship when he piloted the N.Y. Yankees to to victory in 1947.
Val

Here's a couple of my favorites ...

Originally from the Jeff Morey collection, signed by the widow of John McGraw....

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In 1933, at age 26 and in ...
 

his FIRST year as player-manager (he played 152 games at shortstop, batted .309, and led the A.L. in doubles), Joseph Edward Cronin led the Washington Senators to their last A.L. Championship. It don't get much moh betta than this! Although Cronin batted .318 in the World Series, the N.Y. Giants prevailed.

Cronin later managed the Red Sox for several years, leading them to the A.L. Championship in 1946, and subsequently served as President of the A.L. for a number of years.
Val

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Two greats.

In 1901, at age 31 and in ...
 

his FIRST year as player-manager (he led the A.L. in winning % with a 24-7 pitching record), Clark Calvin Griffith, the "Old Fox" who recognized the managerial potential of Bucky Harris and Joe Cronin, led the Chicago White Stockings to the A.L. Championship (there was no World Series until 1903).

This was the only championship for manager Griffith, although he did pilot the N.Y. Highlanders (Yankees) to 2nd place in 1904 & 1906 and the Senators to 2nd place in 1912 & 1913.
Val