List of Major League Baseball managers with most career wins

Connie Mack baseball card, 1910. Connie Mack is the all time leader in career wins by a manager.

This is a list of the Top 15 MLB career wins by a manager.
[through completed October 4, 2009 games; 2009 record in parentheses]

Due to their length of service, seven of the top ten also appear in the top ten in losses. Mack, who managed the Philadelphia Athletics for 50 years, is by far the all-time leader in both wins and losses. Bucky Harris is in second place for losses. La Russa is in third place. Gene Mauch is in fourth place with 2,037. McGraw is in fifth place; Cox sixth; Torre seventh, close behind Cox; Casey Stengel is eighth with 1,842; Anderson is ninth; Lou Piniella is tenth.

Rank	Name	Wins	Losses	Pct.
1	Connie Mack	3,731	3,948	.486
2	John McGraw	2,763	1,948	.586
3	Tony La Russa	2,552	2,217	.535
4	Bobby Cox	2,413	1,930	.556
5	Joe Torre	2,246	1,915	.540
6	Sparky Anderson	2,194	1,870	.544
7	Bucky Harris	2,157	2,218	.493
8	Joe McCarthy	2,125	1,333	.615
9	Walter Alston	2,040	1,613	.558
10	Leo Durocher	2,009	1,709	.540
11	Casey Stengel	1,905	1,842	.508
12	Gene Mauch	1,902	2,037	.483
13	Bill McKechnie	1,896	1,723	.524
14	Lou Piniella	1,784	1,639	.521
15	Ralph Houk	1,619	1,531	.514

Bold entries denotes active manager (as of 2009)

Win Percentage

This is a list of the best win percentages by a manager.

Rank	Name	Win Pct.	Wins
1	Joe McCarthy	.615	2,125
2	Jim Mutrie	.611	658
3	Charlie Comiskey	.608	840
4	Frank Selee	.598	1,284
5	Billy Southworth	.597	1,044
6	Frank Chance	.593	946
7	John McGraw	.586	2,763
8	Al Lopez	.584	1,410
9	Earl Weaver	.581	1,480
10	Harry Wright	.578	1,225

See also

• Manager of the Year
• MLB All-Time Manager (1997; BBWAA)
• Sporting News Manager of the Decade (2009)
• The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award.
• This Year in Baseball Awards (including manager)

External links

• Baseball-Reference.com - career managing record and playing statistics
• Major League Baseball Standings