List of Louisville Colonels managers

The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in Louisville, Kentucky. They played in the American Association when it was considered a major league from 1882 through 1891 and in the National League from 1892 through 1899, after which the team folded and its best players were transferred to the Pittsburgh Pirates.[1][2] From 1882 through 1884 the team was named the Louisville Eclipse.[1] During their time as a Major League team, the Colonels employed 17 managers.[3] The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.[4][5]

Hall of Famer Fred Clarke was the Louisville Colonels' last Major League manager.

The Colonels' first manager was Denny Mack.[1] Mack managed the team for one season (1882), in which he led the Colonels to a record of 38 wins and 42 losses.[3] Fred Clarke was the Colonels' last manager.[1] Clarke took over as player-manager of the team during the 1897 season, and managed the team through the 1899 season while also playing as an outfielder for the Colonels.[1][6] Clarke was one of the players transferred to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1900, as were Honus Wagner, Tommy Leach, Claude Ritchey and Deacon Phillippe.[7][8] Clarke took over as the Pirates' player-manager, and after a second-place finish in 1900, he led the Pirates, with the former Colonels stars, to three consecutive league pennants in 1901, 1902, 1903, and a World Series championship in 1909.[9] Clarke was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, the only Colonels' manager so honored.[10][11] The Colonels won their only Major League pennant when they had the best record in the American Association in 1890.[1] They played to a tie in the World Series that season against the National League champion Brooklyn Bridegrooms; each team won three games and there was one tie game.[a][12] Jack Chapman was the Colonels' manager that season.[3]

Clarke holds the Colonels' record for games managed (402), managerial wins (180), and managerial losses (212).[3] Mike Walsh, who managed the team in 1884, has the highest winning percentage of any Colonels' manager, at .630.[3] The only other two managers who had winning percentages over .500 for the Colonels are Mack and Joe Gerhardt, who managed the team in 1883.[3] The only Colonels' manager who served more than one term was Mordecai Davidson, who served two terms during the 1888 season while he was also the team's owner.[13][14] Davidson replaced John Kelly for three games before being replaced by John Kerins.[3][13] After Kerins managed the Colonels for seven games, Davidson took over again for the final 90 games of the season.[3][13] Davidson's total managerial record with the Colonels was 93 games managed with 35 wins and 54 losses, for a winning percentage of .393.[13]

Table key
#
A running total of the number of Colonels managers. Any manager who has two or more separate terms is counted only once.
G
Number of regular season games managed; may not equal sum of wins and losses due to tie games
W
Number of regular season wins in games managed
L
Number of regular season losses in games managed
WPct
Winning percentage: number of wins divided by number of games managed
PA
Playoff appearances: number of years this manager has led the franchise to the playoffs
PW
Playoff wins: number of wins this manager has accrued in the playoffs
PL
Playoff losses: number of losses this manager has accrued in the playoffs
LC
League Championships: number of League Championships, or pennants, achieved by the manager
WS
World Series: number of World Series victories achieved by the manager
†
Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame

Managers
Billy Barnie managed the Colonels in 1893 and 1894.
#[b]ManagerSeasonsGWLWPctPAPWPLLCWSRef
1Denny Mack1882804238.525—————[15]
2Joe Gerhardt1883985245.536—————[16]
3Mike Walsh18841106840.630—————[17]
4Jim Hart1885–1886250119129.480—————[18]
5John Kelly1887–18881788689.491—————[19][20][21]
6Mordecai Davidson1888312.333—————[13]
7John Kerins1888734.429—————[22]
—Mordecai Davidson1888903452.395—————[13]
8Dude Esterbrook18891028.200—————[23]
9Jimmy Wolf1889651451.215—————[24]
10Dan Shannon1889581046.179—————[25]
11Jack Chapman1889–1892336164166.49713310[a][12][26]
12Fred Pfeffer18921004256.429—————[27]
13Billy Barnie1893–189425786169.337—————[28]
14John McCloskey1895–189615237113.247—————[29]
15Bill McGunnigle18961153676.321—————[30]
16Jim Rogers1897441724.415—————[31]
17Fred Clarke†1897–1899402180212.459—————[9]
Totals17 managers18 seasons2,3559931,320.42913310

Footnotes
  • a Although the Colonels played in the tournament called the World Series in 1890, the 19th-century World Series was a different event from the current World Series, which began in 1903. The 19th-century World Series was considered an exhibition contest between the champion of the National League and the champion of the American Association. The Colonels tied the Brooklyn Bridegrooms in the 1890 World Series.[12][32]

References
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  16. "Joe Gerhardt Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  17. "Mike Walsh Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  18. "Jim Hart Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
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  22. "John Kerins Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  23. "Dude Esterbrook Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  24. "Jimmy Wolf Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  25. "Dan Shannon Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
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  27. "Fred Pfeffer". Retrosheet. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  28. "Billy Barnie Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  29. "John McCloskey Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  30. "Bill McGunnigle Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  31. "Jim Rogers Managerial Record". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
  32. "World Series". Major League Baseball. Retrieved 2009-03-15.

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