MLB manager Gene Mauch dies

[ticklingfeet4fu]

Longtime Major League baseball manager Gene Mauch died of cancer this evening at the age of 79. Mauch in his major league career won 1901 games was 11th on the all-time wins list. Mauch also lost 2037 games in his career. Gene Mauch's stigma was for making bad teams decent. Gene Mauch is probably best known for his teams collapsing down the stretch of a season. The Philadelphia Phillies had a 6 game lead with 12 games to play when the Phillies collapsed and lost to the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cards would win the World Series against the Yankees. Mauch also managed the expansion Montreal Expos and the California Angels. Mauch managed 2 Angels teams to the playoffs but failed to get his teams to the World Series with 2 excrutiating loses. First in 1982, when the Angels took a 2-0 lead in the best of 5 series over the Milwaukee Brewers and lost that series 3-2. Then in 1986, with the Angels up 3 games to 1,to the Boston Red Sox and the Angels leading 5-4 in the 9th inning the late Donnie Moore ( commited suicide in July 18th, 1989 ) served up a 2 run homer to Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox to extend the series and the Angels did not recover as the Red Sox advanced to the World Series that year. Mauch managerial career was like this: He managed the Phillies for 1960-1968, the Expos from 1969-1975, the Minnesota Twins from 1976 -1980 and had 2 stints with the Angels from 1981-1982 and from 1985 -1987. Gene Mauch played in the Major Leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1944 and 1948, the Chicago Cubs from 1948 to 1949, the Boston Braves 1950-1951, the Cardinals in 1952 and the Red Sox 1956-1957. Mauch had176 career hits with 5 hoeruns and a .239 lifetime average. Mauch's legacy he leaves us is as a popular beloved manager. Gene Mauch dies of cancer at the age of 79.

 

[milagros317]

It is always especially sad when a former Brooklyn Dodger player passes away. 🙁
Rest in peace, Gene.

 

[venray]

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Career highlights
1944 -- First season in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957 -- Hits .270 for the Boston Red Sox in best and last season as a Major League player.
1960 -- Hired as Philadelphia Phillies manager.
1962 -- Named National League Manager of the Year after managing the Phillies to an 81-80 record and 7th place finish.
1964 -- Again named NL Manager of the Year after going 92-70 with the Phillies, who finished second to the St. Louis Cardinals.
1969 -- Named first manager of the Montreal Expos.
1973 -- Wins third National League manager of the Year award.
1982 -- Manages the California Angels to a first-place finish in the American League West.
1986 -- Again takes the Angels to first place in the AL West, but they lose the ALCS to Boston after being within one out of the World Series.

 

[ticklingfeet4fu]

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Career highlights
1944 -- First season in the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1957 -- Hits .270 for the Boston Red Sox in best and last season as a Major League player.
1960 -- Hired as Philadelphia Phillies manager.
1962 -- Named National League Manager of the Year after managing the Phillies to an 81-80 record and 7th place finish.
1964 -- Again named NL Manager of the Year after going 92-70 with the Phillies, who finished second to the St. Louis Cardinals.
1969 -- Named first manager of the Montreal Expos.
1973 -- Wins third National League manager of the Year award.
1982 -- Manages the California Angels to a first-place finish in the American League West.
1986 -- Again takes the Angels to first place in the AL West, but they lose the ALCS to Boston after being within one out of the World Series.

A great job with that Venray. I did not have everything available to me at the time I had knowledge of his death. Thank you for covering me on that. Amazing that when he won his third National League manager of the year award that the Expos had their best season to date and that was still a losing record. Still an amazing managerial career.

 

[Iwon'tgrowup]

Gene was a class act. I was a kid, just getting into baseball, when the Expos were created. All the columnists wrote about what a fine choice Mauch was to skipper the fledgling crew. I'll always have an image of Mauch and Rusty Staub with their heads together, devising whatever strategy the Expos were able to devise. Thanks for enriching our game, Mr. Mauch.

 

[Knox The Hatter]

My most vivid memories of Gene Mauch were of him going out to the mound and yelling and screaming at his pitchers.

Some of his players were fiercely loyal...like Cookie Rojas. Others, like Art Mahaffey, left his clubs bearing him much ill-will.

However, even he didn't deserve 1986.

 

[unclebill]

Gene Mauch may have been the best manager in baseball never to win a pennant. Everyone in the game respected him.