finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1945 left 17 december 1975 nashville , tennessee mcnairy county , tennessee 1943 september 23 .262 0 55 177 first baseman chicago white sox batting average home runs runs batted in hits april 24 3 september 1913 kerby farrell
 boston braves kerby farrell left
kerby farrell

major kerby farrell -lrb- september 3 , 1913 -- december 17 , 1975 -rrb- was an american professional baseball player , coach and manager .
he was a longtime minor league manager who spent but a single season -- 1957 -- as a pilot in major league baseball .
farrell was a three-time winner of the sporting news ' minor league manager of the year award -lrb- 1954 , 1956 and 1961 -rrb- -- the only man to have won the award more than twice -lrb- as of 2015 -rrb- .
born in leapwood , mcnairy county , tennessee , farrell played college baseball at freed-hardeman college for two years .
in his playing days , he was a first baseman and veteran minor-leaguer who appeared in two full mlb seasons during the world war ii manpower shortage , with the 1943 boston braves and the 1945 chicago white sox , batting .262 with 177 hits , no home runs and 55 runs batted in in 188 games played .
he also pitched in five games for the 1943 braves , losing his only decision and compiling an earned run average of 4.30 in 23 innings of work .
he batted and threw left-handed , stood tall and weighed .
farrell began his managing career before the war in the class c middle atlantic league in 1941 -- 42 .
in 1947 , he became a skipper in the farm system of the cleveland indians with the spartanburg peaches of the class b tri-state league and began a steady rise through the cleveland organization .
his 1953 reading indians of the class a eastern league won 101 games , while his 1954 and 1956 indianapolis indians , then cleveland 's triple-a club , won american association pennants and the 1956 junior world series .
these triumphs earned farrell his first two managerial awards .
at the close of the 1956 season , when the indians finished as runners-up to the new york yankees , cleveland manager al lopez resigned to become the new skipper of the white sox and farrell was promoted to succeed him .
the 1957 campaign was a star-crossed season for the indians .
prodigal left-handed pitcher herb score , a strikeout king and 20-game winner in 1956 , was nearly blinded on may 7 by a line drive off the bat of the yankees ' gil mcdougald , and missed the rest of the campaign .
two other 20-game winners from ' 56 , eventual hall of famers bob lemon and early wynn , slumped to below .500 records .
while 1957 saw the debut of roger maris , who played for farrell with indianapolis , the indians fell to a 76 -- 77 -lrb- .497 -rrb- record and a sixth-place finish , the team changed general managers -lrb- from hank greenberg to frank lane -rrb- , and farrell was fired .
he then returned to the minors , where he managed in the philadelphia phillies , new york mets and minnesota twins organizations .
he also coached for the white sox -lrb- 1966 -- 69 -rrb- and indians -lrb- 1970 -- 71 -rrb- .
as a minor league skipper over 21 seasons , farrell won 1,710 games , losing 1,456 -lrb- .540 -rrb- .
kerby farrell died from a heart attack in nashville , tennessee , at age 62 .
