Bob Coleman

Bob Coleman
Coleman as a Boston Brave (1943–45)
Catcher / Coach / Manager
Born: (1890-09-26)September 26, 1890 Huntingburg, Indiana, U.S.
Died: July 16, 1959(1959-07-16) (aged 68) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 13, 1913, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
Last MLB appearance
September 9, 1916, for the Cleveland Indians
MLB statistics
Batting average	.241
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	27
Games managed	295
Managerial record	128–165
Winning %	.437
Teams
As player Pittsburgh Pirates (1913–1914) Cleveland Indians (1916) As manager Boston Braves (1943, 1944–1945) As coach Boston Red Sox (1926) Detroit Tigers (1932) Boston Braves (1943)
Career highlights and awards
Won 2,496 games as a minor league manager 6× Three-I League Manager of the Year (1935, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1946, 1951)

Robert Hunter Coleman (September 26, 1890 – July 16, 1959) was an American catcher, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. Notably, he served two terms as pilot of the Boston Braves of the National League—as acting skipper from April 24 to June 17, 1943, and as the Braves' official field leader from the start of 1944 through July 29, 1945.

Coleman also was one of the most successful managers in the history of minor league baseball, where, between 1919 and 1957 (with interruptions caused by major league service) he won ten regular season pennants and five league playoff titles. He won his first pennant with the 1922 Terre Haute Tots of the Three-I League, and he also won a championship with the 1935 Springfield Senators, also of the Three-I League. The rest of his titles came with the Evansville, Indiana, franchise in that circuit.