Gene William Mauch was an American professional baseball player and manager, who played in Major League Baseball as a second baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, Boston Braves, St Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox.
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Gene Mauch is by far the winningest manager to have never won a league pennant, three times coming within a single victory.
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Gene Mauch managed the Philadelphia Phillies, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins and California Angels.
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Gene Mauch gained a reputation for playing a distinctive "small ball" style, which emphasized defense, speed, and base-to-base tactics on offense, rather than power hitting.
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Gene Mauch missed part of 1944 and all of the 1945 season while performing wartime service in the United States Army Air Forces.
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The combative Gene Mauch was known for frequent skirmishes with the league's umpires and later conceded he was too young for the assignment.
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From 1954 to 1957, Gene Mauch was strictly a player, first for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League, then the Red Sox.
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Gene Mauch started 65 games as the Bosox' second baseman and batted a career-high.
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Gene Mauch went to spring training with the Millers and prepared for his third season as their manager.
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Gene Mauch was a strong advocate of "small ball", the emphasis on offensive fundamentals such as bunting, sacrifice plays, and other ways of advancing runners, as opposed to trying to score runs primarily through slugging.
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Gene Mauch used his bombastic personality to help his team gain any possible advantage on the baseball diamond.
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Gene Mauch had a brilliant baseball mind and is sometimes credited with starting the "double player switch".
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Gene Mauch took command of the Phillies two games into the 1960 season.
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Gene Mauch was named Manager of the Year by the Associated Press that year.
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Gene Mauch decided to start his two pitching aces, Jim Bunning and Chris Short, in 7 of the last 10 games, 4 of those starts on 2 days' rest.
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In 1969, Gene Mauch became the inaugural manager of the Montreal Expos.
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In 1976, Gene Mauch was hired by Calvin Griffith to manage the Minnesota Twins, which had Rod Carew at the time.
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Gene Mauch took over during the strike shortened 1981 season for the California Angels.
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Some blamed Gene Mauch, who chose to start Tommy John and Bruce Kison, winners of the first two games, in Games 4 and 5 on three days' rest each.
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Gene Mauch was replaced by John McNamara before being hired back in 1985.
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Gene Mauch suddenly retired for health reasons as manager of the Angels during spring training in 1988 at age 62.
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Seven years after his retirement as a manager, Gene Mauch returned in 1995 as bench coach with the Kansas City Royals to assist Bob Boone, who was in his first year as a big league skipper.
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Gene Mauch ultimately served as a manager in 26 seasons, and he had a winning record in twelve of those seasons.
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Gene Mauch managed his nephew Roy Smalley III during his tenure with the Minnesota Twins.
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Gene Mauch died at age 79 at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California, from lung cancer.
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