Player #83I: Stanley R. "Bucky" Harris Part 2. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1919-1928. 1,297 hits and 167 stolen bases in 12 MLB seasons. 1924 and 1947 World Series champion. In 1975, inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame. Named player-manager of the Washington Senators in 1924 at age 27. "The Boy Wonder" led Washington to World Series victory as "rookie" manger. Managed Washington Senators in 1924-1928, 1935-1942, and 1950-1954. Managed the Detroit Tigers in 1929-1933 and 1955-1956. Managed the Boston Red Sox in 1934. Managed the Philadelphia Phillies in 1943. Managed the New York Yankees in 1947-1948, including winning the 1947 world Series. Served as the General Manager of the Boston Red Sox in 1959-1960.
Povich continues: He (Bucky) spent less time in his office. During 1926 and '27 Bucky managed the ball team and that was all, Griffith was back in the clubhouse running the business affairs as he had run them since 1912 when he bought the team."
If Griffith and Bucky had such a relationship, where Bucky was expected to take over as club president, it was news to a lot of people. Griffith had always been something of a control freak, and it's doubtful he was going to make Bucky his successor. Griffith remained club president into his 80s. And it was not fair to say Bucky did nothing but manage the team on the field. He engineered a lot of the deals that made the 1924 and 1925 teams winners and had some of the failed deals forced on him by Griffith, notably for fading stars Sisler and Speaker. But it was true that Bucky had changed. He was no longer the "mine boy" or the "boy wonder," and he did "move in new circles," as Povich put it. At the end of his first tenure in Washington, though, it was his personality that did him in and that did not change as he aged. When not on the field playing, Bucky was soft-spoken and easy going. He didn't like imposing strict rules off the field. He trusted men to act like men, not boys. Curfews were for children. (Bucky Harris by Jack Smiles.)
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