Billy Southworth

Though the St. Louis Cardinals three winningest managers are truly legendary – Tony La Russa, Red Schoendienst and Whitey Herzog each have guided their St. Louis teams to a title – the trio represents only part of the great tradition of Cardinals managers. In alphabetical order, the 13 Hall of Fame managers are Roger Bresnahan, Roger Connor, Frankie Frisch, Herzog, Rogers Hornsby, Miller Huggins, La Russa, Bill McKechnie, "Kid" Nichols, Branch Rickey, Schoendienst, Joe Torre - and the man who guided the Cardinals' dynasty in the 1940s, Billy Southworth.

Billy Southworth spent 13 seasons as an outfielder and 13 as a National League manager. A popular figure with players, Southworth skippered the St. Louis Cardinals for seven seasons, averaging 101 wins a season between 1941 and 1945. He won three pennants with the Redbirds, along with World Series titles in 1942 and 1944. During his six-year stint as manager of the Boston Braves, Southworth brought the perennial league doormats their first pennant in 34 years during the 1948 season. Southworth finished with a 1,064-729 record, posting one of the best winning percentages (.593) of all time.

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Aside from Arky Vaughan today, there are seven other former Pittsburgh Pirates players that were born on this date and just like Arky, one of these other players went on to get inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Billy Southworth (1893) outfielder for the Pirates from 1918-1920 and Hall of Fame manager. He […]

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Billy Southworth was like Casey Stengel’s long-lost brother from another mother. Both were born west of the Mississippi, less than three years apart. Both were outfielders in the teens and ’20s. Bill James lists each as the other’s most similar player. And both became hugely successful managers after long, serpentine routes to the top. They were even traded for each other in 1923. But unlike Stengel, who had no children, lived a long, happy life with a wealthy wife, and has never left the public consciousness, Southworth endured tremendous tragedy in his personal life and had been in danger of being forgotten before his 2008 election to the Hall of Fame.

Career: 52 HR, .297 BA, 561 RBI, RF, HOF in 2008, Braves/Pirates/... 1913-1929, b:L/t:R, born in Unite. 1893, died 1969

William Harold Southworth (March 9, 1893 – November 15, 1969) was an American right fielder, center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). Playing in 1913 and 1915 and from 1918 to 1929, he batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Southworth managed in 1929 and from 1940 through 1951. He managed three pennant-winning St. Louis Cardinals teams, winning two World Series, and another pennant with the Boston Braves, the last National League title in Boston baseball history. As manager of the Cardinals, his .642 winning percentage is the second-highest in franchise history and the highest since 1900.