bats death_date death_place birth_place statvalue position birth_date article_title statlabel name throws
unknown 21 december 1933 fort wayne , indiana fort wayne , indiana 23-25 50 .479 manager 4 july 1861 louie heilbroner
 managerial w -- l games winning percentage louie heilbroner unknown
louie heilbroner

louis `` louie '' heilbroner -lrb- july 4 , 1861 - december 21 , 1933 -rrb- was a manager in major league baseball in the 1900 season , with the st. louis cardinals .
in the middle of the season , patsy tebeau resigned as the cardinals ' manager and team president frank robison publicly offered the job to third baseman john mcgraw who declined despite his boss ' insistence .
robinson then gave the manager title to heilbroner who was serving as his secretary and who had no particular baseball qualifications .
by many accounts , the diminutive heilbroner -lrb- 4 ' 9 or 1,44 m -rrb- never imposed his authority and mcgraw was the `` de facto '' manager of the team and this was candidly acknowledged by the team owners .
after managing the last 50 games in 1900 , heilbroner was replaced by patsy donovan at the start of 1901 .
during his short stint as manager , heilbroner led the cardinals to 23 wins , 25 loses and 2 ties .
he remained with the team as a business manager until 1908 and later served a two-year term -lrb- 1912-1914 -rrb- as president of the central league .
heilbroner was also a pioneer in baseball statistics .
in 1909 , he founded heilbroner 's baseball bureau service , the first commercial statistical bureau dedicated to baseball , and began publishing the `` baseball blue book '' .
he died on december 21 , 1933 in fort wayne , indiana .
