Title: The Bill James guide to baseball managers : from 1870 to today /
Authors: James, Bill, 1949-
Publisher: Scribner,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Baseball managers United States Biography; Baseball managers Rating of United States.; Baseball Records United States.; Baseball United States History; Baseball United States History
Abstract: Consider the fact that although more than fourteen thousand men have appeared in a lineup of at least one major league baseball game, fewer than six hundred have managed one. Small though that number is, it is inflated by dozens of skippers with only a few weeks or months at the helm of a club. If we were to define "real" managers as those who have managed a thousand games - not, after all, a terribly high bar to hurdle, fewer than seven full seasons - we would find that.