Hummel: Sandberg is on a rocky road - STLtoday.com
he Philadelphia Phillies’ Ryne Sandberg, starting his second season, and Minnesota’s Paul Molitor, in his first, not only are part of history this season in that they represent the first Hall of Famers to manage big-league teams at the same time,... There is one minor addendum, according to the Hall of Fame, in that Luke Appling, elected to the Hall in 1964, made his managerial debut with Kansas City in 1967 as interim manager of the A’s. Appling finished 10-30 and never returned as a manager. In fact, very few Hall of Famers have succeeded as managers, with one notable exception being St. Louisan Yogi Berra, winning the National League pennant with the New York Mets in 1973, one year after being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Bob Lemon, a 1976 Hall of Famer, finished up the 1978 season with the New York Yankees when they won the World Series and also finished 1981 when they were American League champions. But both had managed other teams before they were elected to the Hall — Berra with the Yankees in 1964 and Lemon with the Kansas City Royals from 1970-72. Another notable Hall of Fame player who managed for a long time was Frank Robinson. But as a player-manager with Cleveland, Robinson clearly had managed before he was elected into the Hall. Source: www.stltoday.com
