Bill Carrigan
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| Catcher | |
| Born: October 22, 1883 Lewiston, Maine |
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| Died: July 8, 1969 (aged 85) Lewiston, Maine |
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| Batted: Right | Threw: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| July 7, 1906 for the Boston Americans | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| September 30, 1916 for the Boston Red Sox | |
| Career statistics | |
| Batting average | .257 |
| RBI | 235 |
| Managerial Record | 489-500 |
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William Francis Carrigan (October 22, 1883 - July 8, 1969), nicknamed "Rough", was a Major League baseball catcher. He was born in Lewiston, Maine.
Carrigan started his career as a platoon catcher and played all ten seasons with the Boston Red Sox. Midway through the 1913 baseball season, he replaced Jake Stahl as manager of the defending World Series champion Red Sox as a player-manager. He then led Boston to a second-place finish in 1914 and two world championships in 1915 and 1916, compiling an 8-2 record as a manager in World Series play. Until Terry Francona duplicated the feat in 2007, he was the only manager to have won two World Series titles with Boston. Babe Ruth called Carrigan the best manager he ever played for.
He then left baseball to become a banker in his home state of Maine.[1] He returned to manage the Red Sox in 1927, but he was unable to duplicate his previous success as Boston finished in last place for three straight seasons. Bill Carrigan died in Lewiston, Maine, at the age of 85. He was posthumously elected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2004.
[edit] References
- ^ Kavanagh, Jack. Bill Carrigan. Retrieved October 10, 2006.
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
- Baseball-Reference.com - managerial statistics and analysis
- Page at Baseball Library
- TheDeadBallEra.com - Carrigan's Obituary
David Jones, ed., Deadball Stars of the American League (Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006).
| Preceded by Jake Stahl Lee Fohl |
Boston Red Sox Manager 1913-1916 1927-1929 |
Succeeded by Jack Barry Heinie Wagner |
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