caption finalyear bats birth_place debutyear statvalue position finalteam statlabel birth_date number image article_title debutteam name throws
mckeon w. bush -lrb- right -rrb- on january 24 , 2004 -lrb- left -rrb- shaking hands with president george 2011 right south amboy , new jersey 1973 1,972 1,051 -- 990 1051 990 manager florida marlins games win -- loss record winning % 23 november 1930 25 jack_mckeon_and_george_w . _ bush.jpg jack mckeon
 kansas city royals jack mckeon right
jack mckeon

john aloysius mckeon -lrb- ; born november 23 , 1930 -rrb- , nicknamed `` trader jack , '' is an american former major league baseball manager and front-office executive .
in 2003 , he won a world series as manager of the florida marlins .
two full seasons removed from his previous managing job , mckeon had begun the season in retirement , but on may 11 , he was induced to return to uniform at age 72 to replace jeff torborg as the marlins ' pilot .
the team was 16 -- 22 and in next-to-last place in the national league east division .
mckeon , described upon his hiring by marlins ' general manager larry beinfest as a `` resurrection specialist , '' led the marlins to a 75 -- 49 win-loss record , a wild card berth , victories over the san francisco giants and chicago cubs in the national league divisional and championship series playoffs , and then a six-game world series triumph over the new york yankees .
he remained at the helm of the marlins through , then seemingly retired at age 74 .
but on june 20 , 2011 , he took over the marlins for a second time as interim manager following the resignation of edwin rodríguez and served out the season .
in so doing he became , at age 80 , the second oldest manager in big league history , behind only connie mack .
he retired again at the end of the season with a career managerial record of 1,051 -- 990 -lrb- .515 -rrb- .
mckeon previously managed the kansas city royals from 1973 to 1975 , the oakland athletics for parts of both 1977 and 1978 , the san diego padres from 1988 to 1990 , and the cincinnati reds from 1997 to 2000 .
from july 7 , 1980 , through september 22 , 1990 , he served as the general manager of the padres , putting together the team which won the 1984 national league pennant , the first in san diego history .
