Red Dooin
| Red Dooin | ||
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Runs batted in | 344 | |
| Managerial record | 392–370 | |
| Winning % | .514 | |
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As manager | ||
Charles Sebastian "Red" Dooin (June 12, 1879 – May 12, 1952) was an American professional baseball player and manager. A catcher in Major League Baseball during the first two decades of the 20th century, he played 1,219 of his 1,290 games as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies and managed the Phils from 1910 through 1914.
Biography
Born in
home plate in 1910 and 1911 – curtailed his playing career, he stayed in the majors as a catcher through 1916. A right-handed hitter, he batted .240 with ten career home runs
. Oddly, six of those home runs came in one season: 1904, Dooin's first season as a full-time regular.
In 1910, Dooin succeeded
Pat Moran, he nurtured the great pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander
to stardom in his earliest big league seasons. The Phillies rose to second place in the 1913 NL, but when they fell to sixth the following season, Dooin was replaced by Moran as the team's skipper.
Still an active player, he then was traded to the
shutouts during his career, ranking him 20th all-time among major league catchers.[1]
Dooin died of a heart attack in Rochester, New York at the age of 72, and was buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.[2]
See also
- List of Major League Baseball player–managers
References
- ^ "The Encyclopedia of Catchers – Trivia December 2010 – Career Shutouts Caught". The Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
- ^ Baseball-Almanac
External links
Media related to Red Dooin at Wikimedia Commons- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
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