Daniel Edward Murtaugh was an American second baseman, manager, front-office executive, and coach in Major League Baseball.
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15 Facts About Danny Murtaugh
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Danny Murtaugh is best known for his 29-year association with the Pittsburgh Pirates, with whom he won two World Series as field manager.
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Danny Murtaugh appeared in all or parts of nine big-league seasons, initially for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Braves before joining the Pirates.
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Danny Murtaugh declined the opportunity to play baseball in the United States and served in combat with the 97th Infantry in Germany.
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The Braves then selected him in the 1946 Rule 5 draft, but Danny Murtaugh played in only three early-season games for them before he was again sent to Triple-A.
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Danny Murtaugh started a career-high 145 games as the Pirates' second baseman.
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Danny Murtaugh went on to hold the Pittsburgh job for all or parts of fifteen seasons over four different terms.
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In 1960, his third full season as their manager, Danny Murtaugh guided the Bucs to the first of the two World Series championships they won under his command.
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Danny Murtaugh had been battling health problems, sometimes reported as a heart ailment.
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Danny Murtaugh moved up to the Pirate front office as a key assistant in charge of evaluating players for general manager Joe L Brown.
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Well aware of the abundance of talent in the Pittsburgh system, Danny Murtaugh asked to reclaim the managing job after Larry Shepard was fired in the last week of the 1969 season.
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Once medically cleared, he began his third term as skipper of the Pirates on October 9,1969; hours after Danny Murtaugh's re-hiring, Don Hoak, 41, his third baseman on the 1960 World Series champions and a manager in the Pirates' farm system, died of a heart attack after believing he was a leading contender to manage the parent club.
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Danny Murtaugh reluctantly returned to managing, his fourth term in the post, and stayed through the 1976 season, winning NL East titles in 1974 and 1975 but falling to the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Reds in the NLCS in successive years.
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Danny Murtaugh was a two-time winner of The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award.
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