Dan Howley
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox baseball biography Daniel Philip "Dapper Dan" Howley (October 16, 1885 – March 10, 1944) was an American Major League Baseball manager with the St. Louis Browns and the Cincinnati Reds. His first year as manager of the Browns saw his team lose 94 games and finish <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />50+1⁄2 games behind the legendary 1927 New York Yankees. He stayed two more years in St. Louis, with his best year coming in Template:Baseball year, finishing in third place. In 1929, he was hired by the Reds, but he averaged 95 losses in three years, leading to his dismissal. He finished his career with a lifetime 397–524 record (.431 winning percentage).
He was a four-time manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League, leading the team in 1918, 1923–1926, 1933, and 1937, winning the league pennant in 1918 and 1926. Howley was inducted into the International League Hall of Fame.
Prior to his managing career, Howley was a major league catcher for part of the Template:Baseball year season for the Philadelphia Phillies. He later served as a coach for the Detroit Tigers for three seasons, 1919 and 1921–22.[1] Howley also acted as the first base umpire in a July 1922 game.[2]
Howley died of a heart attack in his birthplace of Weymouth, Massachusetts at age 58.[3]
Managerial record
| Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
| SLB | Template:Mlby | 153 | 59 | 94 | Template:Winning percentage | 7th in AL | – | – | – | – |
| SLB | Template:Mlby | 154 | 82 | 72 | Template:Winning percentage | 3rd in AL | – | – | – | – |
| SLB | Template:Mlby | 154 | 79 | 73 | Template:Winning percentage | 4th in AL | – | – | – | – |
| SLB total | 459 | 220 | 239 | Template:Winning percentage | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| CIN | Template:Mlby | 154 | 59 | 95 | Template:Winning percentage | 7th in NL | – | – | – | – |
| CIN | Template:Mlby | 154 | 58 | 96 | Template:Winning percentage | 8th in NL | – | – | – | – |
| CIN | Template:Mlby | 154 | 60 | 94 | Template:Winning percentage | 8th in NL | – | – | – | – |
| CIN total | 462 | 177 | 285 | Template:Winning percentage | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Total | 921 | 397 | 524 | Template:Winning percentage | 0 | 0 | – | |||
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