Had over 2,200 career hits and finished with a .290 average.
He was on our pennant winners in 1929, 1932 (player-manager; first year managing), 1935 (player-manager with 100 wins) and managed us to another pennant in 1945.
His all-time winning percentage as a manager was .547.
His 1287 wins is more than Whitey Herzog and so is his winning percentage.
Charlie would have won more World Series than Whitey, too, if he didn't have to face one of the best teams of all-time in 1932 (Babe Ruth and the Yankees) and another strong team in the '35 Tigers. Whitey got to face a weak Milwaukee team, blew a 3-1 lead against a weak KC and lost in 1987 to a team that had won only 85 games.
Charlie should be a Hall of Fame manager, not Whitey.
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Bob Beamon, American track and field long jumper (Olympic gold 1968, 29' 2½" 8.9m), born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York
I remember watching the Mexico City Olympics on TV and seeing Beamon's amazing jump. Before him, nobody had jumped 28 feet; all the best were in the 27s. Then Beamon comes along with a 29 foot jump! BTW, Beamon also opened track & field with a coup de bâton in the Paris Olympics that just ended.
