Whitey Lockman

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Whitey Lockman
Runs batted in
563
Managerial record157–162
Winning %.492
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Teams
As player

As manager

Career highlights and awards

Carroll Walter "Whitey" Lockman (July 25, 1926 – March 17, 2009)[1] was an American left-handed hitting first baseman and outfielder, coach, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball.

Playing career

Born in

minor leagues in the middle of the 1945 season, just prior to his 19th birthday. Lockman hit a home run in his first at-bat becoming the youngest to do so in MLB history; his record was broken by Jasson Domínguez in 2023.[2] He batted
.341 in limited duty that season.

On October 3,

New York Giants the National League championship—baseball's "Shot Heard 'Round the World." Lockman's one-out double against the Brooklyn Dodgers had scored Alvin Dark with the Giants' first run of the inning, and made the score 4–2, Brooklyn. His hit knocked Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe out of the game, and, on the play, Giant baserunner Don Mueller broke his ankle sliding into third base. While Mueller was being carried off the field to be replaced by pinch runner Clint Hartung, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen, acting on the instructions of Dodger bullpen coach Clyde Sukeforth, called on relief pitcher Ralph Branca, whose second pitch was hit by Thomson over the head of Andy Pafko into the Polo Grounds' lower left field stands for a game-winning, three-run homer. However in the 1951 World Series, won in six games by the New York Yankees, Lockman hit .240 with a home run. Three years later, he batted only .111 in the 1954 Fall Classic, but the Giants swept the Cleveland Indians
to win the world championship.

In his only All-Star appearance, Lockman was the National League's starting first baseman in the 1952 All-Star Game at Shibe Park in Philadelphia. The game was called off after five innings due to rain.

In 1956, Lockman was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals. His time in St. Louis was brief, however, as the Cardinals sent him back to the Giants after the end of the 1956 season. He was a member of the Giants' last New York team, and their first San Francisco outfit, when the club moved West in 1958. He finished his playing career in 1959–60 with the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds.

Appearing in 1,666 games, Lockman had a .279 career batting average with 114 home runs and 563 RBI.

Coach, manager, player development director

Lockman's coaching career began immediately after his playing days ended, as he joined the Reds' staff in 1960 under skipper Fred Hutchinson. In 1961, when his old teammate Dark became manager of the Giants, Lockman became his third base coach, serving through 1964. Lockman then joined the Chicago Cubs as a minor league manager (1965; 1967–70), MLB coach (1966), and, then, supervisor of player development.[3]

In July 1972, he succeeded his old mentor,

Florida Marlins
.

He finished with a career major league managing record of 157–162 (.492).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Lockman passes away at 82 | MLB.com: News". Archived from the original on March 24, 2009.
  2. ^ "Jasson Domínguez becomes youngest Yankee to homer in first at-bat". EPSN News Services. September 1, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  3. ^ a b Baseball America Executive Database
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