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35	Jet	Huppert	m	In 1915, Meyer played so well for a Davenport, Iowa, team that Connie Mack signed him to back up catcher Wally Schang for his major league Philadelphia Athletics. He recalled that Mack had him catch for unpredictable young pitchers in order to save Schang. He played 50 games for the A's that year--and was thus on hand for a season in which the A's finished with the worst winning percentage in major league history. He played 62 games for the A's in 1917. As it turned out, this would be Meyer's last season in the majors as an active player. He collected 71 hits, with seven doubles, three triples and one home run, batted .236, and was credited with 21 runs batted in. After the season, Meyer was sold to the Louisville Colonels in the American Association. He would stay in Louisville for 11 years, and was a major contributor to the Colonels' American Association pennants in 1921 and 1925 under Joe McCarthy.When McCarthy was called up to manage the Chicago Cubs for the 1926 season, Meyer was named to succeed him at the Colonels' helm. In his first season, Louisville won a second consecutive pennant with a team that included future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Billy Herman (whom Meyer would replace as skipper of the Pirates over 20 years later). But when the Colonels promptly slumped to consecutive 100-loss seasons in 1927 and 1928, he was fired. At the same time, he was released as a player. After spending three years (1929–1931) as a coach for the Minneapolis Millers, an American Association rival of the Colonels, Meyer became manager of the 1932 Springfield Rifles of the Eastern League, an affiliate of the New York Yankees, where McCarthy was in his second season as manager. Meyer had the Rifles in first place on July 17 when the league folded due to Depression-related financial troubles. But only two days later, he was hired by the Binghamton Triplets of the New York–Pennsylvania League, another Yankee farm team. Meyer stayed in Binghamton for 31⁄2 years, winning the pennant in 1933 and half the pennant in 1934 and 1935, and impressing George Weiss, head of the parent club's growing farm system. In 1936, Meyer moved up to the top-level Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, who then had a working agreement with the Bronx Bombers. He produced one playoff team in two seasons at Oakland and was named to manage another top-level Yankee farm outlet, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, in 1938. For the next ten years, Meyer alternated as the manager of the Blues (1938–1941; 1946–1947) and the Yankees' other elite farm club, the Newark Bears of the International League. During that time, he won four pennants and finished second four times. His 1939 Blues, who finished 107–47 and won the Junior World Series for the second year in a row, were named the 12th best team in history by Minor League Baseball. Meyer was named Minor League Manager of the Year by The Sporting News. Overall, as a manager in the minors, Meyer won eight pennants, narrowly missed a ninth, and finished in the second division only twice. On July 6, 1944, Meyer and Newark were in last place, 30 games behind Bucky Harris and his Buffalo Bisons, and had lost to Buffalo seven consecutive times. Newark rebounded by winning 30 of 34 games while Buffalo dropped into the second division, and missed winning the pennant by a fraction of a percent. In 19 seasons as a minor league skipper, Meyer's clubs won 1,605 and lost 1,325 (.548). Meyer was known for scrappiness. With Newark, one of his players, Nick Rhabe, threatened the general manager, "If you don't get me more dough, you'll be sorry." Rhabe carried through on the threat by running the bases poorly in a game. Meyer responded by knocking Rhabe down the dugout steps and kicking him off the team. In general, he was a disciplinarian who rarely screamed at players, similar to the style of Joe McCarthy. Meyer was an avid singer and a fan of George M. Cohan. While in New York, Joe McCarthy introduced Meyer to Cohan. Meyer impressed him by singing songs that Cohan himself had not remembered writing. During his minor league managerial career, Meyer was considered for major league jobs several times. He was a candidate to be manager for the 1938 Cleveland Indians, but lost out to Ossie Vitt. Later, he was derailed by clubs' preference of the time for player–managers, thus saving salary during the Great Depression, or men whose major league résumés were stronger than Meyer's. When the Cubs fired Gabby Hartnett after the 1940 campaign Meyer was considered, but Jimmie Wilson got the job after helping the Cincinnati Reds win the 1940 World Series. In 1945, Frank E. McKinney, owner of the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association, approached Meyer at the Little World Series in Louisville on behalf of the Indians' parent team, the Boston Braves, about their managerial opening. But the Braves' owners, led by Lou Perini, ultimately chose Billy Southworth, winner of three straight NL pennants and two World Series titles from 1942–1944 with the St. Louis Cardinals; Southworth would be elected to the Hall of Fame as a manager in 2008. The parent Yankees, meanwhile, had only one skipper from 1931 through 1945: McCarthy, who won eight American League pennants, seven World Series titles, and 1,438 regular-season games (an average of 96 a season) during that span.After a tumultuous 1946 season, which saw McCarthy quit as the Bombers' skipper in May, Yankees' president and co-owner Larry MacPhail offered the club's 1947 managerial job to Meyer. But Meyer had been seriously ill that same year; he had collapsed during a June game from heat prostration, and then was hospitalized for several weeks after suffering a mild heart attack. The hot-tempered, hard-drinking MacPhail also had a reputation for clashing with his managers. Meyer declined MacPhail's offer and instead returned to Kansas City, leading the 1947 Blues to a first-place finish, while the Yankees rebounded to win the 1947 pennant under Bucky Harris. The years 1946 and 1947 were also consequential for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Frank McKinney—who had contacted Meyer about interviewing with the Braves after the 1945 season—became the Pirates' majority owner in August 1946. His ownership group, which included entertainer Bing Crosby and real-estate magnate John W. Galbreath, hired a new management team at the close of the 1946 season. As general manager, they selected former Yankee farm system official Roy Hamey. Then they acquired Billy Herman from the Braves and named the future Hall of Fame second baseman player–manager for 1947. But the managerial move backfired: the 37-year-old Herman was at the end of the line as a player, appearing in only 18 games and hitting .213, and his Pirates stumbled to the club's second consecutive seventh-place season in the eight-team National League. He resigned with one game left in the 1947 campaign. McKinney and Hamey, who had worked with Meyer at both Binghamton and Kansas City in the Yankee organization, then turned to Meyer, who accepted their offer to become Pittsburgh's pilot for 1948. Meyer received an important endorsement from Joe McCarthy, who had followed Meyer's work with future Yankees stars in Oakland, Kansas City and Newark closely. McCarthy was impressed enough to say Meyer had been the best manager in the minor leagues at the time, and predicted that he would be one of the best in the majors as well. In 1948, in his first season, Pittsburgh rose from seventh place to fourth in the standings—and just 81⁄2 games out of first. The 21-game improvement to 83–71 earned Meyer The Sporting News Major League Manager of the Year. The Pirates also led the National League in attendance. Despite the home run heroics of Ralph Kiner, the Pirates dropped to sixth place in 1949. Reportedly, Meyer lost the team when he suggested to reporters that a player had run into a pitchout on his own when he'd actually given the player a hit and run sign. By 1950 they were back in the cellar. In December 1950, the Pirate ownership replaced Hamey with Branch Rickey, whose solution was to purge the team of high-salaried veterans and bring up young players from the farm system—the same tactic he'd used to rebuild the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers. However, it backfired disastrously in Pittsburgh, and Meyer was saddled with what amounted to a minor-league team at the major-league level. The Pirates managed to improve to seventh in 1951, but lost 112 games in 1952—the second-worst record in franchise history, and the third-worst in modern (post-1900) National League history. Meyer resigned at the end of that campaign.	Despite a managing record of 317–452 (.412) over five seasons, all with Pittsburgh, and his pedestrian big league playing career, Meyer was given two significant honors, a measure of how widely respected he was. In 1954, the Pirates retired Meyer's uniform number (1). He also was saluted by his native city of Knoxville, where he maintained his home and had married a classmate from grade school, Madelon Warters, in 1932. The city's baseball park, for years the home of the minor-league Knoxville Smokies, was named Bill Meyer Stadium in his honor. Meyer appears in the Norman Rockwell painting Bottom of the Sixth. After his managing days, Meyer worked as scout and troubleshooter for the Pirates until he suffered a stroke in 1955. Meyer died two years later, in Knoxville, of heart and kidney ailments at age 64.	In 1915, Huppert played so well for a Davenport, Iowa, team that Connie Mack signed him to back up catcher Wally Schang for his major league Philadelphia Athletics. He recalled that Mack had him catch for unpredictable young pitchers in order to save Schang. He played 50 games for the A's that year--and was thus on hand for a season in which the A's finished with the worst winning percentage in major league history. He played 62 games for the A's in 1917. As it turned out, this would be Huppert's last season in the majors as an active player. He collected 71 hits, with seven doubles, three triples and one home run, batted .236, and was credited with 21 runs batted in. After the season, Huppert was sold to the Louisville Colonels in the American Association. He would stay in Louisville for 11 years, and was a major contributor to the Colonels' American Association pennants in 1921 and 1925 under Joe McCarthy.When McCarthy was called up to manage the Chicago Cubs for the 1926 season, Huppert was named to succeed him at the Colonels' helm. In his first season, Louisville won a second consecutive pennant with a team that included future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Jet Herman (whom Huppert would replace as skipper of the Pirates over 20 years later). But when the Colonels promptly slumped to consecutive 100-loss seasons in 1927 and 1928, he was fired. At the same time, he was released as a player. After spending three years (1929–1931) as a coach for the Minneapolis Millers, an American Association rival of the Colonels, Huppert became manager of the 1932 Springfield Rifles of the Eastern League, an affiliate of the New York Yankees, where McCarthy was in his second season as manager. Huppert had the Rifles in first place on July 17 when the league folded due to Depression-related financial troubles. But only two days later, he was hired by the Binghamton Triplets of the New York–Pennsylvania League, another Yankee farm team. Huppert stayed in Binghamton for 31⁄2 years, winning the pennant in 1933 and half the pennant in 1934 and 1935, and impressing George Weiss, head of the parent club's growing farm system. In 1936, Huppert moved up to the top-level Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, who then had a working agreement with the Bronx Bombers. He produced one playoff team in two seasons at Oakland and was named to manage another top-level Yankee farm outlet, the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, in 1938. For the next ten years, Huppert alternated as the manager of the Blues (1938–1941; 1946–1947) and the Yankees' other elite farm club, the Newark Bears of the International League. During that time, he won four pennants and finished second four times. His 1939 Blues, who finished 107–47 and won the Junior World Series for the second year in a row, were named the 12th best team in history by Minor League Baseball. Huppert was named Minor League Manager of the Year by The Sporting News. Overall, as a manager in the minors, Huppert won eight pennants, narrowly missed a ninth, and finished in the second division only twice. On July 6, 1944, Huppert and Newark were in last place, 30 games behind Bucky Harris and his Buffalo Bisons, and had lost to Buffalo seven consecutive times. Newark rebounded by winning 30 of 34 games while Buffalo dropped into the second division, and missed winning the pennant by a fraction of a percent. In 19 seasons as a minor league skipper, Huppert's clubs won 1,605 and lost 1,325 (.548). Huppert was known for scrappiness. With Newark, one of his players, Nick Rhabe, threatened the general manager, "If you don't get me more dough, you'll be sorry." Rhabe carried through on the threat by running the bases poorly in a game. Huppert responded by knocking Rhabe down the dugout steps and kicking him off the team. In general, he was a disciplinarian who rarely screamed at players, similar to the style of Joe McCarthy. Huppert was an avid singer and a fan of George M. Cohan. While in New York, Joe McCarthy introduced Huppert to Cohan. Huppert impressed him by singing songs that Cohan himself had not remembered writing. During his minor league managerial career, Huppert was considered for major league jobs several times. He was a candidate to be manager for the 1938 Cleveland Indians, but lost out to Ossie Vitt. Later, he was derailed by clubs' preference of the time for player–managers, thus saving salary during the Great Depression, or men whose major league résumés were stronger than Huppert's. When the Cubs fired Gabby Hartnett after the 1940 campaign Huppert was considered, but Jimmie Wilson got the job after helping the Cincinnati Reds win the 1940 World Series. In 1945, Frank E. McKinney, owner of the Indianapolis Indians of the American Association, approached Huppert at the Little World Series in Louisville on behalf of the Indians' parent team, the Boston Braves, about their managerial opening. But the Braves' owners, led by Lou Perini, ultimately chose Jet Southworth, winner of three straight NL pennants and two World Series titles from 1942–1944 with the St. Louis Cardinals; Southworth would be elected to the Hall of Fame as a manager in 2008. The parent Yankees, meanwhile, had only one skipper from 1931 through 1945: McCarthy, who won eight American League pennants, seven World Series titles, and 1,438 regular-season games (an average of 96 a season) during that span.After a tumultuous 1946 season, which saw McCarthy quit as the Bombers' skipper in May, Yankees' president and co-owner Larry MacPhail offered the club's 1947 managerial job to Huppert. But Huppert had been seriously ill that same year; he had collapsed during a June game from heat prostration, and then was hospitalized for several weeks after suffering a mild heart attack. The hot-tempered, hard-drinking MacPhail also had a reputation for clashing with his managers. Huppert declined MacPhail's offer and instead returned to Kansas City, leading the 1947 Blues to a first-place finish, while the Yankees rebounded to win the 1947 pennant under Bucky Harris. The years 1946 and 1947 were also consequential for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Frank McKinney—who had contacted Huppert about interviewing with the Braves after the 1945 season—became the Pirates' majority owner in August 1946. His ownership group, which included entertainer Bing Crosby and real-estate magnate John W. Galbreath, hired a new management team at the close of the 1946 season. As general manager, they selected former Yankee farm system official Roy Hamey. Then they acquired Jet Herman from the Braves and named the future Hall of Fame second baseman player–manager for 1947. But the managerial move backfired: the 37-year-old Herman was at the end of the line as a player, appearing in only 18 games and hitting .213, and his Pirates stumbled to the club's second consecutive seventh-place season in the eight-team National League. He resigned with one game left in the 1947 campaign. McKinney and Hamey, who had worked with Huppert at both Binghamton and Kansas City in the Yankee organization, then turned to Huppert, who accepted their offer to become Pittsburgh's pilot for 1948. Huppert received an important endorsement from Joe McCarthy, who had followed Huppert's work with future Yankees stars in Oakland, Kansas City and Newark closely. McCarthy was impressed enough to say Huppert had been the best manager in the minor leagues at the time, and predicted that he would be one of the best in the majors as well. In 1948, in his first season, Pittsburgh rose from seventh place to fourth in the standings—and just 81⁄2 games out of first. The 21-game improvement to 83–71 earned Huppert The Sporting News Major League Manager of the Year. The Pirates also led the National League in attendance. Despite the home run heroics of Ralph Kiner, the Pirates dropped to sixth place in 1949. Reportedly, Huppert lost the team when he suggested to reporters that a player had run into a pitchout on his own when he'd actually given the player a hit and run sign. By 1950 they were back in the cellar. In December 1950, the Pirate ownership replaced Hamey with Branch Rickey, whose solution was to purge the team of high-salaried veterans and bring up young players from the farm system—the same tactic he'd used to rebuild the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers. However, it backfired disastrously in Pittsburgh, and Huppert was saddled with what amounted to a minor-league team at the major-league level. The Pirates managed to improve to seventh in 1951, but lost 112 games in 1952—the second-worst record in franchise history, and the third-worst in modern (post-1900) National League history. Huppert resigned at the end of that campaign.Despite a managing record of 317–452 (.412) over five seasons, all with Pittsburgh, and his pedestrian big league playing career, Huppert was given two significant honors, a measure of how widely respected he was. In 1954, the Pirates retired Huppert's uniform number (1). He also was saluted by his native city of Knoxville, where he maintained his home and had married a classmate from grade school, Madelon Warters, in 1932. The city's baseball park, for years the home of the minor-league Knoxville Smokies, was named Bill Huppert Stadium in his honor. Huppert appears in the Norman Rockwell painting Bottom of the Sixth. After his managing days, Huppert worked as scout and troubleshooter for the Pirates until he suffered a stroke in 1955. Huppert died two years later, in Knoxville, of heart and kidney ailments at age 64.	Billy	Meyer	sports	To Whom It May Concern,<return><return>I am writing to enthusiastically recommend Jet Huppert for any coaching or managerial positions in the sport of baseball. I had the pleasure of observing Mr. Huppert's playing and coaching abilities during his time in the majors and minors, and I can attest to his exceptional talent and dedication to the sport.<return><return>Mr. Huppert's playing career began in 1915, when he was signed by Connie Mack to back up catcher Wally Schang for the Philadelphia Athletics. He quickly proved himself to be a valuable player, catching for unpredictable young pitchers in order to save Schang. He played 50 games for the A's that year, and 62 games in 1917. While his playing career was cut short, his coaching and managerial career was just beginning.<return><return>Huppert's managerial career began in 1926, when he was named the successor to Joe McCarthy as the manager of the Louisville Colonels. In his first season, Louisville won a second consecutive pennant, and Huppert was named to succeed McCarthy as skipper of the Pittsburgh Pirates over 20 years later. Throughout his managerial career, Huppert won eight pennants and finished in the second division only twice. He was known for his scrappiness and discipline, and was a fan favorite among his players.<return><return>Despite his pedestrian big league playing career, Huppert was widely respected and was given two significant honors. In 1954, the Pirates retired his uniform number and he was saluted by his native city of Knoxville, where the baseball park was named Bill Huppert Stadium in his honor.<return><return>I highly recommend Mr. Huppert for any coaching or managerial positions in the sport of baseball. His dedication, talent, and experience make him an invaluable asset to any team.<return><return>Sincerely,<return><return>[Your Name]