Whitey Duke
| Whitey Duke | |
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 Withey Herzog 1989
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| Outfielder / manager | |
| Born: November 9, 1931 New Athens , United States 
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| Strikes: Left | Throws: Left |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| With the Washington Senators on April 17, 1956 | |
| Last MLB assignment | |
| September 28, 1963 with the Detroit Tigers | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | , 257 |
| Home runs | 25th |
| Runs Batted In | 172 |
| Play as a manager | 2.406 |
| Win – loss as a manager | 1,281-1,125 |
| Games won in% | 53.2 |
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As a player
As a manager
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| member of | |
 Baseball Hall of Fame
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| Recorded | 2010 |
| Quota | 87.5% |
| Special selection | Veterans committee |
Dorrel Norman Elvert "Whitey" Herzog (born November 9, 1931 in New Athens , Illinois ) is a retired American baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). His nickname and first name is Whitey .
biography
Herzog was born the second of three children to Edgar and Lietta Herzog. He grew up in rural New Athens in southwest Illinois, a village with mostly residents from German emigrant families. His father worked in a brewery, his mother in a shoe factory. He was active in sports at an early age and was initially noticed as a basketball player who was offered a college scholarship from Saint Louis University . However, Herzog wanted to be a professional baseball player from childhood and after graduating from high school and doing trial training, signed a contract with the New York Yankees for a $ 1,500 graduation bonus.
Between 1949 and 1955 Herzog played for various farm teams , in 1953 he was drafted into the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War , where he coached the baseball team at Fort Leonard Wood . In addition to Herzog, the Yankees had also signed Mickey Mantle for the position of centerfielder as a junior player. Since this developed much more promising, there was a move to the Washington Senators , where he made his debut in the Major League in 1956. In eight league seasons, he also played for the Kansas City Athletics , Baltimore Orioles and the Detroit Tigers . In 1960 he suffered a severe bruise on his right thigh which, due to inadequate treatment, led to calcium deposits that severely impaired his career until the end of 1963.
After his active career, Herzog worked as a scout and trainer for the Kansas City Athletics for two years. In 1966 he moved to the New York Mets , where he became head of player development after a year as 3rd base coach. The Mets won the World Series in 1969 .
In 1973 he became the manager of the Texas Rangers . Shortly before the end of the season, Herzog was released and replaced by Billy Martin, who had just become free . After a year as a coach with the California Angels , where he was also an interim manager for a day, he moved to the Kansas City Royals as a manager . In the first season, he led the Royals to second place. In the three years that followed, he won the Western Division with his team, but failed every year in the American League Championship Series at the New York Yankees. In 1979 he finished second in the Western Division, whereupon he was fired from the Royals.
In June 1980 he took over the managerial position with the St. Louis Cardinals . After two months, he convinced the owner of the Cardinals, Gussie Busch , to use him as general manager in order to make the team more successful. Red Schoendienst took over as manager for Herzog until the end of the season. From the 1981 season he took on the duties of general manager and manager for two years in personal union. During this time he acquired players from other clubs and promoted young players who formed the basis for a successful decade for the Cardinals. In 1983, when he completely focused on his managerial role again, he won the World Series . In 1985 and 1987 he won the National League Pennant, but lost each time in the World Series. In July 1990, Herzog resigned.
Herzog then took on various activities in the MLB in an advisory role, including at short notice as General Manager of California Angels .
In 2019, Herzog suffered a stroke during a charity golf tournament.
Whiteyball
The way his teams played, especially at the Cardinals, was nicknamed Whiteyball . His players were often very fast and scored stolen bases or often came to the bases by means of walks , he attached importance to defense and a good bullpen, but he had few players who hit many home runs. Herzog himself said that this way of playing was not based on a game philosophy, but rather out of the need to have only a few players who hit many home runs.
Achievements and honors
In 1985, Herzog was named Manager of the Year in the National League. In 2010, Herzog was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame . The St. Louis Cardinals no longer gave his shirt number 24 to players since 2010. Founded in 2014, the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum has inducted Herzog as a founding member. Herzog is also a member of the Kansas City Hall of Fame.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from MLB or ESPN or baseball reference or fangraphs or baseball reference (minor league) (English)
- Data as a manager (English)
- Whitey Herzog in the Baseball Hall of Fame (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan: White Rat. A Life in Baseball. Perrennial Library, New York 1988, ISBN 0-06-080910-8 .
- ↑ HOF manager Herzog recovering from stroke. In: ESPN. September 18, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Duke, Whitey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Duke, Dorrel Norman Elvert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American baseball player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Athens , Illinois |