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A manager's job is do or die: they know their success is measured by the number of wins and losses they record so when the club fails, skippers are prepared for dismissal.
IT DOESN'T TAKE A HEAP OF LONG-winded prose to sketch a verbal outline of the career trajectories of the vast majority of the approximately 600 men who have been promoted--or condemned--to manage teams since the earliest days of major league baseball.
Just four oft-spoken little words suffice: "Hired to be fired!"
Few have articulated the profound truth of that well-worn wail of discarded field leaders better than Bobby Bragan, who was employed and discharged by three teams during the 1950s and 1960s. The Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee (later Atlanta) Braves in succession wooed, wed, and weeded Bragan.
While in charge of ...
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