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ALL OF A SUDDEN, CHARLIE MANUEL FOUND HIMSELF WITH NO LINEUPS TO ponder, no dugout haven and no team to manage. Two days after serving as a coach for the American League at the 2002 All-Star Game, Manuel was fired by the Cleveland Indians.
Manuel had managed the Indians for two and a half years. They won 90 games and finished second in the A.L. Central in 2000 and won it with 91 victories in 2001. Now it was mid-July; the Indians, dramatically altered and no longer dominant, were eight games below .500 and nine and a half games behind, and Manuel was headed home to Winter Haven, Florida.
There would be withdrawal, of course, and hurt and bitterness. But ...
Source: HighBeam Research, After dismissal, former managers stay in the game to get another...