Billy Southworth (Baseball Manager) – Overview, Biography

Billy Southworth
Name:Billy Southworth
Occupation: Baseball Manager
Gender:Male
Birth Day: March 9,
1893
Death Date:Nov 15, 1969 (age 76)
Age: Aged 76
Country: United States
Zodiac Sign:Pisces

Billy Southworth

Billy Southworth was born on March 9, 1893 in United States (76 years old). Billy Southworth is a Baseball Manager, zodiac sign: Pisces. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed. @ plays for the team .

Trivia

He was the first person to win the World Series as a player and a coach.

Net Worth 2020

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As per our current Database, Billy Southworth died on Nov 15, 1969 (age 76).

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Before Fame

He was a great hitter for 16 seasons, starting with the Indians in 1913 and ending with the Cardinals in 1929.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1913

Southworth was born in Harvard, Nebraska, to Orlando and Mariah Southworth and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He had four older brothers who played baseball. Before he was old enough to play with them, Southworth would give his old socks to his brothers so they could create makeshift balls. Southworth decided to play baseball against his father’s wishes. Orlando Southworth had wanted his son to attend college. At the age of 19, he signed a contract with the Portsmouth team in the Ohio State League. He joined the Cleveland Indians in 1913, but only appeared in one game, entering as a replacement on defense.

1914

In 1914, Southworth married Lida Brooks. She was a minister’s daughter and they had met while Southworth was playing for Portsmouth. The couple’s son, William Brooks Southworth, was born during Southworth’s early playing career. Billy Southworth Jr. later became a professional baseball player for several seasons. The elder Southworth returned to the Cleveland Indians in 1915 and appeared in 60 games. He played for the Birmingham Barons in 1917 and part of 1918, when he made the Pittsburgh Pirates and played in 64 major league games.

1919

Southworth played more regularly in 1919, appearing in 121 games and leading the league with 14 triples. With the exception of two seasons, Southworth played in at least that many games through 1926. In 1926, Southworth’s offensive production increased and he finished the season with a .320 batting average, 16 home runs and 99 RBI. He ran into difficulty with New York manager John McGraw that year, as Southworth’s independent style became incompatible with McGraw’s strict leadership. He was traded from the New York Giants to the St. Louis Cardinals in the middle of the season. Southworth suffered a 1927 rib injury that limited his playing time. The Cardinals’ leadership began to look for a role for Southworth beyond his playing career.

1928

Southworth’s managerial career began in 1928 with the Rochester Red Wings of the AA International League (IL), the top club in the Cardinals’ farm system. In May, Southworth and his wife experienced the stillbirths of twins. Southworth returned home after losing the twins, but he quickly came back to Rochester. Late in the season, Southworth received word that Billy Jr. had been accidentally shot by a neighbor in Columbus. His son recovered, but the experience shook the manager. The team won the IL championship that season.

Southworth was promoted to St. Louis as player-manager for 1929, replacing Bill McKechnie, who won a National League pennant in 1928 and lost the World Series in four straight games to the New York Yankees. Southworth’s Major League playing career reached the end of the road, as he appeared in only 19 games, five in the outfield, and batted only .188 with six hits. He finished with a .297 batting average in 1,192 MLB games played, 52 home runs, 91 triples, 173 doubles, 661 runs scored, and 561 RBI. He stole 138 bases in his career and had double-digit steal totals in eight seasons. As a big leaguer, Southworth had 1,296 hits in 4,359 at bats.

1929

His 1929 MLB managerial debut was not much more successful than his playing stint. Only one year removed from being a teammate of his charges, he attempted to impose discipline on the Cardinals, banning them from driving their own automobiles. The team did not respond to his hard line and won only 43 of their first 88 games. Southworth was sent back to Rochester on July 21, McKechnie was rehired, and the Cardinals finished in fourth place.

1935

Although Southworth immediately resumed his successful minor league managerial career, the firing and personal tragedy — the death of his wife Lida at age 42 — began a downward spiral. Beset by struggles with alcoholism, he quit a coaching job with the 1933 Giants during spring training and left baseball for two seasons. After a recovery, he rejoined the Cardinals’ minor league system in 1935 and by 1939 he was again enjoying success as Rochester’s manager. He remarried in 1935, wedding the former Mabel Stemen, with whom he had a daughter.

1940

In June 1940, he received a second chance with the struggling Cardinals when owner Sam Breadon fired manager Ray Blades and promoted Southworth from Rochester. This time, the Cards flourished under him. With talented players such as Enos Slaughter, Marty Marion, Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Mort Cooper, Whitey Kurowski and Johnny Beazley being harvested each spring from the club’s farm system, the Cardinals entered a Golden Age in their history. Upon Southworth’s appointment, they won 69 of 109 games and jumped from seventh to third place in 1940. The following season they won 97 games and finished second.

1942

From 1942 to 1944, the Cardinals won 106, 105 and 105 games, three pennants and two World Series titles. His 1942 Cardinals, who breezed to the World Series championship in five games, were the only team (out of eight) to ever defeat Joe McCarthy’s New York Yankees in a Fall Classic. In 1943, both teams met again in the World Series; but this time, the Yankees turned the tables on the Redbirds, winning in five games. The Cards’ third successive National League pennant, in 1944, produced another world championship, a six-game triumph over the American League (AL) St. Louis Browns. With it, Southworth had presided over one of the most dominant three-year stretches in National League (NL) history.

1945

However, another personal family tragedy struck when on February 15, 1945, his son, Billy Jr., by then a United States Army Air Forces major, died when his Boeing B-29 Superfortress crashed into Flushing Bay, New York after taking off from Mitchel Field, New York, on a training flight to Florida.

1946

Southworth moved to the Boston Braves in 1946, signing a then-lucrative managing contract for a reported $50,000 per season, and immediately led the Braves into the first division. Talented pitchers Johnny Sain and Warren Spahn had both returned from service in World War II that year.

1948

In 1948, the Braves won their second NL pennant of the 20th century—and Boston’s last National League title—but were defeated in six games by the Cleveland Indians in the 1948 World Series. In that World Series, all of the games were close except for one, when the Braves beat pitcher Bob Feller 11–5. Author John Rossi writes that Sain lost some respect for Southworth after the manager said the managing and not talent had won the 1948 pennant. Sain had already become irritated with Southworth after the 1948 signing of unproven “bonus baby” pitcher Johnny Antonelli. Sain and Southworth rarely spoke after 1948.

On the occasion of Southworth’s election to the Hall of Fame, one of his former players on the 1948 Braves, Clint Conatser, paid tribute to his old manager. “He just had a gut feeling about the right thing to do in a situation”, Conatser recalled. “The moves he would make would work for him — all the time, not occasionally. Leo Durocher was the same way. It’s like some guys can pick horses out of nowhere. Southworth was a genius like that on the diamond.”

1950

After some of the rebellious players (including Dark and Stanky) had been traded, Southworth returned to his post in 1950 and led the Braves back into the first division, but an aging team and declining attendance boded poorly for both Southworth’s career and the Braves’ future in New England. In 1951, Southworth’s club was only 28–31 on June 19. He called the team’s general manager, John Quinn, and asked to be allowed to resign, and he was replaced by his former standout right fielder, Tommy Holmes.

1964

Southworth’s cousin, Bill Southworth, appeared in the major leagues in 1964.

2008

Southworth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. He had been eligible for election as a player in the 1940s, but he received few votes. After Southworth had been left off of the ballot as a manager in 2003, author Raymond Mileur had begun a campaign of letter writing, phone calls to the Hall of Fame, radio show comments and advocacy through his website known as “The Birdhouse”. Southworth was elected after receiving 13 votes from the 16-member Veterans Committee.

2014

In January 2014, the Cardinals announced that Southworth was among 22 former players and personnel to be inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum for the inaugural class of 2014. He is also a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

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