On July 28, he had a one-game stint as interim manager after the firing of Bob O'Farrell and before new skipper Chuck Dressen arrived from Nashville to take command of the last-place Reds in that game, Cincinnati defeated the Chicago Cubs, 11–2. Shotton then coached for the Cincinnati Reds in 1934. Altogether, Shotton's win–loss mark in Philadelphia was 370–549 (.403). It would be the Phillies' only winning season and first-division finish between 19. Then, only two years later, the 1932 team compiled a 78–76 record, good enough for fourth place in the National League. 383) and scored 944 runs but the Phillie pitching staff allowed 1,199 runs and posted a horrendous 6.71 earned run average and the club finished last, at 52–102. Playing home games in a notorious bandbox, Baker Bowl, during a lively-ball season, the 1930 edition compiled a team batting average of. The Shotton-era Phillies included two notable teams. He lasted six seasons (1928–33) with the Phils, who twice lost more than 100 games during his tenure. Shotton's first formal Major League managing opportunity came the following year with the NL's then-habitually tailend team, the Philadelphia Phillies. His 1927 Syracuse club posted a 102–66 record, but finished second, ten games behind league champion Buffalo. : 23–25 After Shotton retired as a player, he served on the Cardinals' coaching staff from 1923 to 1925, mainly under Rickey, until he took over as manager of the team's top farm club, the Syracuse Stars of the International League, in 1926–27. Rickey and Shotton had formed a longstanding friendship and professional relationship dating back to their years together (1913–15) with the Browns, when Rickey was his manager. In the early 1920s, as a player and coach, he was the Cardinals' "Sunday manager", relieving skipper Branch Rickey, who always observed the Christian Sabbath. He twice (in 19) led AL batters in walks, and finished in the top ten six seasons. His real talent, however, may be shown in his on-base percentage, in which he finished in the top ten in the league four times in his career. In an American League dominated by speedsters such as Ty Cobb and Clyde Milan, Shotton was never among the top five base stealers in the league, and he had a high rate of being caught stealing, but he pilfered 294 bases during his MLB career. Louis Cardinals (1919–23).Īlthough he stole over 40 bases in four consecutive seasons (1913–16), he was also caught stealing over 26 times in each of those seasons. 271 batting average with 1,338 hits in 1,387 Major League games played for the St. In his playing days, he was a speedy outfielder - he was nicknamed "Barney" after record-setting race car driver Barney Oldfield : 14–15 - who batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Shotton was born in Brownhelm, a township in Lorain County, Ohio. As manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers (1947 1948–50), he won two National League pennants and served as Jackie Robinson's first permanent Major League manager. Louis Cardinalsīurton Edwin Shotton (Octo– July 29, 1962) was an American player, manager, coach and scout in Major League Baseball.
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