The Man in the Dugout: Fifteen Big League Managers Speak Their Minds

by Donald Honig

The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball.

Genres: Baseball

343 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Donald Martin Honig is a novelist and historian who mostly writes about baseball.

Reviews

[Dan Pasquini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another "Glory of Their Times" style collection of reminiscences, primarily from the 1920s-40s. But each one is so filled with charm and color for how the game has changed, I could keep reading these forever.

[Chuck · Rating 5 out of 5]

15 stories about baseball mangers from the early 1900’s to the 1960’s.

“Managers are hired to be fired.”
- Bobby Bragan