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| View Poll Results: Choose ONE manager you could have a beer & shoot the breeze with... | |||
| Connie Mack |
   
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16 | 25.40% |
| John McGraw |
  
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20 | 31.75% |
| Casey Stengel |
  
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16 | 25.40% |
| Leo Durocher |
  
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4 | 6.35% |
| Billy Martin |
  
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7 | 11.11% |
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01-11-2010, 04:46 AM
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If you could have a beer and shoot the breeze with one MANAGER...
who would you choose and why?
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01-11-2010, 05:18 AM
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Manager that I would like to have a beer with
Billy Martin wouldn't be a bad choice either....
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01-11-2010, 06:40 AM
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That's a tough one, but I think I choose Stengel mainly because his playing and managing career spanned such a long time. He saw so much, and saw how the game and players changed over the years. My second choice would be Durocher because I 'd love to know if they stole the pitching signs that led up to the Shot heard 'round the world.
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01-11-2010, 08:22 AM
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McGraw
Would like to see what he was really like as a person and manager.
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01-11-2010, 11:00 AM
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I went with McGraw, as I feel like he might have had one of the greatest baseball minds the game has ever seen (not that the others were slouches by any stretch). I feel like I would love to pick his brain about strategy, and certainly about what it was like being with the Orioles in the 1890s, and then managing some of the finest ballplayers the National League has ever seen. Mathewson? Marquard? McGinnity? Ames? Hubbell? Ott? Meusel? Yes, please...
I think Casey would be incredible also, though I would worry about getting trapped in any Stengelese and just confusing myself in the process.
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01-11-2010, 11:03 AM
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McGraw.
So I could ask him about Mathewson. But Martin would be the most fun. My father was acountry and western musician in the 1960-80's. He would play in many clubs through the NY metropolitan area. Mantle and Martin were frequent visitors to a particular club where he played a lot. I was too young to be there most times, but dad did have great stories of both of them telling stories. Apparently, the liquor did loosen them both up quite a bit.
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01-11-2010, 11:45 AM
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I went with McGraw, but I would love obviously love to pick the brain of all those guys!!
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