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{{Short description|American baseball player and manager (1864–1918)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Patsy Tebeau
|position=[[First baseman]] / [[Third baseman]] / [[Manager (baseball)|Manager]]
|image=Patsy Tebeau.jpg
|caption=Tebeau in 1893
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{birth date|1864|12|5}}
|birth_place=[[St. Louis]], Missouri, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1918|5|16|1864|12|5}}
|death_place=St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate= September 20
|debutyear= 1887
|debutteam= Chicago White Stockings
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=June 12
|finalyear=1900
|finalteam= St. Louis Cardinals
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.279
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=27
|stat4label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat4value=735
|stat6label=Managerial record
|stat6value=726–583
|teams=
'''As player'''
* [[History of the Chicago Cubs|Chicago White Stockings]] ({{baseball year|1887}})
* [[Cleveland Spiders]] ({{baseball year|1889}})
* [[Cleveland Infants]] ({{baseball year|1890}})
* [[Cleveland Spiders]] ({{baseball year|1891}}–{{baseball year|1898}})
* [[St. Louis Cardinals|St. Louis Perfectos/Cardinals]] ({{baseball year|1899}}–{{baseball year|1900}})
'''As manager'''
* [[Cleveland Infants]] ({{baseball year|1890}})
* [[Cleveland Spiders]] ({{baseball year|1891}}–{{baseball year|1898}})
* [[St. Louis Cardinals|St. Louis Perfectos/Cardinals]] ({{baseball year|1899}}–{{baseball year|1900}})
|highlights=
* [[Temple Cup]] champion (1895)
}}
'''Oliver Wendell''' '''"Patsy"''' '''Tebeau''' (December 5, 1864 – May 16, 1918) was an American [[first baseman]], [[third baseman]], and [[Manager (baseball)|manager]] in [[Major League Baseball]].<ref name="statistics">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tebeapa01.shtml "Patsy Tebeau Statistics and History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.</ref>

==Career==
Tebeau was born in [[St. Louis]], Missouri, in 1864. His brother, [[George Tebeau]], was also an MLB player.<ref name="statistics"/>

Patsy started his professional baseball career with the [[Western League (original)|Western League]]'s St. Joseph Reds in 1886. The following season, while playing for Denver of the WL, he had a .424 [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] in 94 games.<ref name="minors">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=tebeau001pat "Patsy Tebeau Register Statistics & History"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.</ref> Tebeau made his major league debut with the [[National League (baseball)|National League]]'s [[History of the Chicago Cubs|Chicago White Stockings]] in September of that year. In 20 games with Chicago, he batted .162.<ref name="statistics"/> He then played in the [[Western Association]] in 1888.<ref name="minors"/> In 1889, Tebeau joined the NL's [[Cleveland Spiders]] and batted .282.<ref name="statistics"/> The following year, he was a player-manager for the [[Cleveland Infants]] of the [[Players' League]]. In 1891, Tebeau returned to the Spiders and was a player-manager for the team until 1898.<ref name="managing">[https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/tebeapa01.shtml "Patsy Tebeau Managerial Record"]. baseball-reference.com. Retrieved February 23, 2016.</ref> His lowest batting average with the Spiders was .244 in 1892, and his highest was .329 in 1893.<ref name="statistics"/> The Spiders never finished a full season in first place in the National League, but Tebeau's team benefited from the season structure in 1892, 1895 and 1896; the 1892 season was a split-season that found Cleveland as the winner of the second half and the right to play in the World's Championship Series (the pre-modern postseason before the [[World Series]]). They would compete in the next rendition of postseason play in the League with the [[Temple Cup]] that matched the first and second place teams, and Cleveland would win once.<ref name="managing"/>

In March 1899, the Spiders assigned Tebeau to the [[St. Louis Cardinals|St. Louis Perfectos]].<ref name="statistics"/> He managed the team before quitting in the middle of the 1900 season.<ref name="Scheinin">Scheinin, Richard (1994). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XNIqinMV3-4C Field of Screams]''. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 75–79.</ref> Tebeau is one of just over a dozen managers to have won at least 400 games in the 19th century.

In his 13-year MLB career, Tebeau played 1,167 games and batted .279 with 27 [[home run]]s and 735 [[Run batted in|runs batted in]].<ref name="statistics"/> His managing record was 726–583–30.<ref name="managing"/> He was known for verbally abusing umpires and opposing players, for which he was criticized by journalists.<ref name="Scheinin"/>

After retiring from baseball, Tebeau ran a saloon in St. Louis. His wife left him, and in 1918, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.<ref name="Scheinin"/> He left a note stating that he was an "unhappy and miserable man."

==Managerial record==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular season !! colspan="4"|Postseason
|-
!Games!!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result
|-
![[1890 Cleveland Infants season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1890}}
||52||21||30||{{Winning percentage|21|30}}|| 7th in PL || – || – || – || –
|-
!colspan="11"|
|-
![[1891 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1891}}
||73||31||40||{{Winning percentage|31|40}}|| 5th in NL|| – || – || – || –
|-
!rowspan="2"| [[1892 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| rowspan="2"| {{mlby|1892}}
||74||{{WinLossPct|40|33}}|| 5th in NL || - || - || - || -
|-
||79||{{WinLossPct|53|23}}|| '''1st in NL''' || 0 || 5 || .000{{efn|Game 1 ended in a tie}} || Lost [[1892 World Series|World Series]] ([[1892 Boston Beaneaters season|BOS]])
|-
![[1893 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1893}}
||129||73||55||{{Winning percentage|73|55}}|| 3rd in NL || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1894 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1894}}
||130||68||61||{{Winning percentage|68|61}}|| 6th in NL || – || – || – || –
|-style="background:#fde910"
![[1895 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1895}}
||132||84||46||{{Winning percentage|84|46}}|| 2nd in NL || 4 || 1 || .800 || '''Won [[Temple Cup]] ([[1895 Baltimore Orioles season|BAL]])'''
|-
![[1896 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]] || {{mlby|1896}}
||135||80||48||{{Winning percentage|80|48}}|| 2nd in NL || 0 || 4 || .000 || Lost [[Temple Cup]] ([[1896 Baltimore Orioles season|BAL]])
|-
![[1897 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1897}}
||132||69||62||{{Winning percentage|69|62}}|| 5th in NL || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1898 Cleveland Spiders season|CLE]]|| {{mlby|1898}}
||156||81||68||{{Winning percentage|81|68}}|| 5th in NL || – || – || – || –
|-
!colspan="11"|
|-
![[1899 St. Louis Perfectos season|STL]]|| {{mlby|1899}}
||155||84||67||{{Winning percentage|84|67}}|| 5th in NL || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1900 St. Louis Cardinals season|STL]]|| {{mlby|1900}}
||92||42||50||{{Winning percentage|42|50}}|| (resigned) || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|Total || 1,339{{efn|Tebeau also managed in 30 games that ended in ties}} || 726 || 583 || {{Winning percentage|726|583}} || || 4 || 10 || .400 ||
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Major League Baseball player-managers]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
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* [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Ptebep101.htm Retrosheet]
* {{Find a Grave|49853863}}

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