18 Facts About Eddie Dyer

Eddie Dyer was the second rookie manager to win a World Series and first since Bucky Harris in 1924.

Edwin Hawley Dyer was born October 11,1899, in Morgan City, Louisiana, the fourth of seven children of Joseph M and Alice Natalie Dyer.

Eddie Dyer was an outstanding football, baseball and track and field athlete as part of the Morgan City High School, Class of 1917.

Eddie Dyer earned an athletic scholarship to Rice Institute and lettered in three sports, winning the Southwest Conference championship in the broad jump and earning a berth on the All-SWC football team in 1920.

Eddie Dyer was All-SWC in each of his three years of varsity baseball.

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Eddie Dyer pitched a no-hitter against Baylor's Ted Lyons, later a Hall of Fame pitcher for the White Sox.

Eddie Dyer left school two credits short of graduation in 1922 when Branch Rickey gave him a $2,500 bonus to sign with the Cardinals.

In 1936, Eddie Dyer completed requirements for his bachelor's degree from Rice.

Eddie Dyer made his debut with the Cardinals on the mound on July 8,1922 and pitched twice in relief before he was farmed out to Syracuse, at the highest minor-league level.

In 1927 Eddie Dyer pitched once for St Louis before he headed to Syracuse again.

Eddie Dyer appeared for the Cardinals in 129 games over all or parts of six seasons — although 1924 and 1925 were his only full seasons in the majors — splitting 30 pitching decisions with an earned run average of 4.

From 1928 on, Eddie Dyer managed in the Cardinals' farm system, continuing his playing career as an outfielder through 1933.

Eddie Dyer completed his Rice degree in 1936 and coached freshman football there for several years.

At the war's end, and with the Cardinals in need of a manager upon Billy Southworth's departure for the Boston Braves, Eddie Dyer returned to baseball and his first Major-League managing assignment in 1946.

Eddie Dyer had to blend returning war veterans and young players with Southworth's wartime club, and lost three key players — undefeated left-handed pitcher Max Lanier, second baseman Lou Klein and relief pitcher Fred Martin — to the marauding Mexican League.

Eddie Dyer had to deal with the Cards' implacable foes, the Dodgers of Leo Durocher, back at full strength after the war.

Eddie Dyer preferred to manage his thriving Houston-area businesses rather than seek another managing job in baseball.

Eddie Dyer suffered a stroke in January 1963, and died in Houston in April of the following year at the age of 64.