Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
~Earl Weaver
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Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
~Earl Weaver
As a rule, he’s right. But there are a few, John McGraw comes to mind, who made excellent managers. Yogi Berra won two pennants. Casey Stengel was a very good ballplayer. Bucky Harris and Lou Boudreau both won a World Series.
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Davey Johnson was also a pretty good ballplayer as well, ditto Hank Bauer.