16 Facts About Buck Showalter

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Buck Showalter is a former professional Minor League Baseball player and television analyst for ESPN and for the YES Network for Yankees telecasts.

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Three-time American League Manager of the Year, Buck Showalter has earned a reputation for building baseball teams into postseason contenders in short periods of time.

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3.

Buck Showalter helped the Yankees rise from the bottom half of the AL East to first place before a players' strike prematurely ended the 1994 campaign.

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4.

Buck Showalter left both franchises just prior to seasons when they won the World Series.

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5.

Buck Showalter played college baseball at Chipola Junior College in Marianna, Florida, in 1976.

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6.

Buck Showalter was an All-American and set the Mississippi State record for batting average in a season by hitting.

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7.

Buck Showalter was hired as manager of the Single-A minor-league Oneonta Yankees of the New York–Penn League in 1985, leading them to 114 victories in two seasons.

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In 1989, Buck Showalter managed the Double-A Albany-Colonie Yankees of the Eastern League, where he was named Minor League Manager of the Year by Baseball America.

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9.

In 1990, Buck Showalter was promoted to the coaching staff of the New York Yankees, and eventually succeeded Stump Merrill as the team's manager for the 1992 season.

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10.

Buck Showalter finished his Yankees tenure with a regular-season record of 313 wins and 268 losses and a playoff record of two wins and three losses.

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11.

Buck Showalter appeared as himself along with Danny Tartabull in the 1994 Seinfeld television episode "The Chaperone".

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12.

In 1996, Buck Showalter was hired by the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks two years before the team was scheduled to begin play in order to take a more active role in developing the eventual roster.

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13.

Buck Showalter chose to wear uniform number 26 as a tribute to Johnny Oates.

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14.

Buck Showalter was named the AL Manager of the Year by The Sporting News.

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15.

Buck Showalter wears number 11—the number he wore every other place he managed except Baltimore where he wore number 26 as a tribute to Johnny Oates.

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16.

When Buck Showalter was manager of the Orioles, his wife was active in the KidsPeace charity for foster children.

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