Omaha daily bee., 1909-01-17
MANY BASE BALL MANAGERS
League Team Directors Of Past and
Present.
HOW THE BIG ONES COME AND GO

Thirteen Have Had Charge of the
New York Nationals since Mutrie's
Time~-AthIetIcs and Browns
Have Had OnIy One.
In r~ecountinE the list OF managers Of base
ball clubs in what might be described as
the modern period Of the national game It
will he found that the New York National
league club has had more than any of the
present biz league clubs and the ST. Louis
and Philadelphia Americans the fewest.
John McGraw is the thirteenth manager
Of the Giants since the time they were
pennant winners before-since the Mutrie
regime In the late SOS. The st. Louis and
Philadelphia American league clubs never
have had but one manager each-James
McAleer and Connie Mack. respectively
hut then they haven't been in existence
nearly as long as the New York Nationals.
The manager is like the p~layer-some-
times he changes often; sometimes he sticks
long with one club. 1t depends, among
other things, on the manager. his success
and the man who employees him. a change
of base by no means necessarily implies
lack Of ability. Some managers who haven't
been a success in one city have been a
SutCesf III OLHtiH. NllFIt NiiEil hltNlOu5
were better adapted 10 getting results
under p new environment. Other managers
have been a success wherever they went,
force or circumstances making 4 change
advisable. There's Frank Selee. for in
stance. Hc was a winning manager in
Omaha. continued his success when he
went to Boston and still later when he
went TO Chicago. Were It not for III health
which keeps him in the west, he doubtless
would be a BIS league manager today.
In Old Jim MutrIe's Day.
Jim Mutrie managed the Giants in the
good old we are the people" DAYS in 1886
and 1850, ana after he LETT not another boss
landed tho New YorSs a pennant winner
until John McGraw did the trick in 1904
McCiraw had previously been = big league
manager I'm ST. Louis, but without doing
at all well. He went back to Baltimore
wien that team was in the American
leegue. then came to New York, soor
demonstrated his fitness for the Job anC
has been 4 successful manager every veal
tltce.
The long list of New York Nationa
managers between Mutrie and McGraN
includes Pat Powers, president OF th'
Eastern league, who was a successful
manager in Buffalo before coming here
JpAll Nctus II was llldlldbNl NlNh III
Giants won the Temple cup in 1894
George Davis, Jack Doyle, Fred Hoey, TIL
clubman; Harvey Watkins, a successful
man in the circus and theatrical business
Arthur Irwin. Adrian G. Arson, Scrapp!
Bill joyce, Buck Ewing, Horace Fogel
a Philadelphia newspaper man, ant
George Smith. the second baseman.
There was one period in the New Yor
clubs history when it changed manager
rapidly, and one or two of the me
named were managers of the club twice
The tenure of office of several of then
was of very brief duration. OF thos
named, Ewing and Mutrie have joine
the silent majority. Ewing, as the olde
patrons of the game know. was catche
of the New York team in 1858 and 1855:
ami the best backstop the game has eve
known. John Ward once said: "Ther
have been good catchers, first-clas
catchers, but Ewing was a MASTER"
1t wasn't at that time. though, tn
Ewing was manager OF the New Yor
club. He wasn't that until ten year
later, and in the meantime he had bee
in the west. His management here di
not last long, in which respect he was /
the same boat with Davis, Doyle. Irwil
Arson, Smith. Fogel and several other
Arson was manager for only a few weeh
and was succeeded by the man he ha
supp'aLted- Bill Joyce.
Boston Managers,
Boston National league managers haN
been Harry Wright. John Morrill,. Jane
A. Hart, Frank Selee, Fred Tenney, Jc
Kelley and now Frank Bowerman, Thei
named cover a long period OF time, niue
longer than is represented by the length
life Of the Boston American league clu
but the Boston Americans have had man
managers in their much shorter existenc
Jimmy Collins was tine first in control whe
that club was launched, and under him Il
Bostons won two pennants and also
worlds championship, 1t may be mention,
just here that worlds championship ma
ayers since the advent of the two presel
big leagues contemporaneously have bee
Collins. McGraw, Fielder Jones and Fran
Chance
There have been kaleidoscope changes
the Boston American management sin
Collins gave up the place. George Hui
who was brought on from Illinois, last
something like a week, and after him car
Cy Young. Chick Stahl. Bob Unglaub, ii
Mcclure and Fred Lake, the last nam
being the present manager. Death c
short Stahls managerial career. The Ne
York Americans have had three manage
since they We're put in the field in 100
Griffith, most of the time, then ElberfeI
then George Sailing. Before coming to Ne
York Griffith was manager OF the Chica
Americans. while Sailing has had man
gerlal experience of considerable rang,
Buffalo and Newsrk in the Eastern leagl
Detroit in the American league and Phil
delphis IN the National league.
Brooklyn managers have been w. H. N
Gunnigle. who also managed the Brookly
i'm the American association; Dave Fol-
and Billy Barnie, both dead; Edward II
Ion, Patsy Donovan and John M, Wa