Bobby Managed my beloved if hapless Pirates in 1956 and 1957-
Bobby Bragan, who earned the nickname "Mr. Baseball" and was dedicated to seeing baseball blossom in Fort Worth, died at his Fort Worth home on Thursday night. He was 92.
"On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened today by the passing of Bobby Bragan," Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. "I met Bobby when he was the manager of the Milwaukee Braves and he was a dear friend of mine for nearly 50 years. He had a long and wonderful baseball career as a player, coach, manager and executive. ... All of baseball will miss him."
Bragan, a native of Birmingham, Ala., arrived in Fort Worth in 1948 as a player and manager after parts of seven seasons in the majors, ending up with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was a backup catcher for the Dodgers before spending two years in the military. He returned for the 1947 season.
The Dodgers went on to lose the World Series that year to the New York Yankees, and Bragan had a pinch-hit double in his only World Series plate appearance. The next season he was in Fort Worth helping the Cats become a winner. He stayed through the 1952 season and his teams won regular-season titles in 1948 and 1949, never finishing below .500 during his tenure.
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