Charlie Manuel was inducted to the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame in 2014.
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32 Facts About Charlie Manuel
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Charlie Manuel became a four-sport star at Parry McCluer High School in Buena Vista, playing baseball, football, basketball, and track and field, captaining the baseball and basketball teams.
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Charlie Manuel turned down his basketball scholarship offers, and an academic scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, to consider offers from the Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, and New York Yankees, ultimately signing with the Twins out of high school in 1963 for $30,000.
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Charlie Manuel played from 1969 to 1972 with the Minnesota Twins and in 1974 and 1975 with the Los Angeles Dodgers, primarily as a pinch-hitter and left fielder.
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Charlie Manuel was on pace to break the Japanese record of 16 home runs in a month.
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Charlie Manuel was wearing a dental bridge, as a result of an earlier accident in the minor leagues.
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Charlie Manuel was discharged from the hospital after six weeks and immediately began playing again, against the advice of doctors and worried family.
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Charlie Manuel wore the helmet for the first few games but stopped using it because it obscured his vision at the plate.
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Charlie Manuel finished the 1979 season with 37 home runs to win the home run title.
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Charlie Manuel was voted the Most Valuable Player, the first American to receive the honor since 1964, hitting.
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Year later, Charlie Manuel shocked Japanese baseball by leaving for a week to attend his son's high school graduation in Virginia.
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Charlie Manuel's contract allowed it, but team officials were incredulous that Manuel would leave the team two games out of first place with three weeks to play in the first half of the season.
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Charlie Manuel returned to lead the team to the second-half championship and the pennant.
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Charlie Manuel was considered one of the best imported baseball players to Japan in those days, along with brothers Leron and Leon Lee and Randy Bass.
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Charlie Manuel returned to the United States to work as a scout for the Minnesota Twins organization before turning to coaching.
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Charlie Manuel was named Manager of the Year three times and managed the IL All-Star team in 1993.
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Charlie Manuel returned to the Majors in 1988 as the Indians' hitting coach, where under his tutelage, the Tribe led the American League in runs three times and set a franchise record in 1999 with 1,009 runs, becoming the first team to score 1,000 runs since the 1950 Boston Red Sox.
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Charlie Manuel was fired as manager of the Cleveland Indians on July 12,2002, over a contract dispute.
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Shortly after he was fired as manager for the Cleveland Indians, Charlie Manuel was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies as special assistant to the general manager.
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Charlie Manuel's Phillies battled injuries all season, including losing newly acquired pitcher Freddy Garcia for the season.
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Charlie Manuel finished second in balloting for the National League Manager of the Year Award for 2007.
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On October 29, Charlie Manuel guided the 2008 Phillies to their second world title.
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Charlie Manuel reached a contract agreement with the Phils on December 9,2008, to keep him with the team through the 2011 season.
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On October 21,2009, Charlie Manuel became the first manager in franchise history to lead the Phillies to two consecutive World Series appearances.
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Charlie Manuel defended his decision by noting that Lee had never pitched on three days' rest before.
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Charlie Manuel finished sixth in balloting for the 2009 National League Manager of the Year Award.
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In 2010, Charlie Manuel managed the Phillies to their fourth consecutive NL East title.
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Several Phillies veterans, including Chase Utley and Cole Hamels, expressed regret and guilt, believing their lack of production led to Charlie Manuel's firing; they said that they viewed Charlie Manuel as a fatherly figure.
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Charlie Manuel is one of just a dozen managers to have won a thousand games without having lost a thousand as well.
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Charlie Manuel has survived a heart attack, quadruple bypass surgery, a blocked and infected colon, and kidney cancer.
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Charlie Manuel has two children, Chuck and Julie; three step-children, Collin, Hailey and Allie; and five grandchildren.
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