page_title: Frank Cacciatore
section_title: Post-playing career
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Cacciatore / Post-playing career
caption_attribution_description: English: Team photo for the 1988 Auburn Astros baseball team of the New York–Penn League, taken at Falcon Park in Auburn, New York. Sitting: Batboy Scott Marshall, Kenny Lofton, Larry Lamphere, Andy Mota, Scott Spurgeon, Harry Fuller, Mica Lewis, Dave Shermet. Kneeling: Office Assistant Joe Kehoskie, Administrative Assistant Pat Penafeather, John Massarelli, Mike Beams, Rod Scheckla, Kenny Morris, Rodney Windes, Rick Dunnum, Luis Gonzalez, Trainer Ron Porterfield. Standing: Assistant General Manager John Graham, Manager Frank Cacciatore, Neder Horta, Jim DeSapio, Wally Trice, Chris Small, Bernie Jenkins, Dennis Tafoya, Gordy Farmer, David Klinefelter, Pitching Coach Rick Wise, General Manager Bob Neal. (Also pictured: Congressman Frank Horton.)
context_page_description: Frank I. Cacciatore is currently a minor league baseball coach in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He is a former minor league baseball player and manager and a former college baseball coach.
context_section_description: After his minor league playing career ended, Cacciatore coached baseball at the college level for many years. In 1986, he managed the Hyannis Mets, a collegiate summer baseball team in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League.
  Cacciatore's first minor league managerial job came in 1988, when he was a last-minute replacement as manager of the Auburn Astros of the short-season Class A New York–Penn League. (Jim Coveney had been named manager of the Auburn Astros for 1988 but replaced Gary Tuck as manager of the Asheville Tourists in mid-season, before he had managed a single game for Auburn.) In Auburn, Cacciatore was the first professional manager of future Major League Baseball stars Luis Gonzalez and Kenny Lofton, both of whom were selected by the Houston Astros in the 1988 draft and assigned to Auburn to begin their professional baseball careers.
  As of 2012, Cacciatore has managed seven different teams at the short-season Class A, full-season Class A, and Double-A levels of Minor League Baseball. Cacciatore has also coached in the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, and New York Mets systems. He is currently the hitting coach for the Reading Fightin Phils.
caption: 1988 Auburn Astros team photo
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