finalyear death_date debutyear statvalue finalteam birth_date death_place finaldate image statlabel debutteam name throws caption birth_place debutdate bats position article_title
1948 21 january 2010 1940 .240 15 172 brooklyn dodgers 30 october 1917 fort worth , texas june 27 bobby bragan 1963.png batting average home runs runs batted in philadelphia phillies bobby bragan right bragan as manager of the braves in 1963 . birmingham , alabama april 16 right shortstop/catcher bobby bragan

bobby bragan

robert randall bragan -lrb- october 30 , 1917 -- january 21 , 2010 -rrb- was an american shortstop , catcher , manager , and coach in major league baseball .
he also was an influential executive in minor league baseball .
he was born in birmingham , alabama .
on august 16 , 2005 , bragan came out of retirement to manage the independent central league fort worth cats for one game , making him -- at 87 years , nine months , and 16 days old -- the oldest manager in professional baseball annals -lrb- besting by one week connie mack , the manager and part-owner of the philadelphia athletics -rrb- .
always known as an innovator with a sense of humor -- and an umpire-baiter -- bragan was ejected in the third inning of his `` comeback '' , thus also becoming the oldest person in any capacity to be ejected from a professional baseball game .
bragan died on january 21 , 2010 of a heart attack at his home in fort worth .
