Bobby Bragan

Bobby Bragan
Bobby Bragan
	Bragan as manager of the Braves in 1963.
	Shortstop / Catcher / Manager
	Born: October 30, 1917; Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
	Died: January 21, 2010 (aged 92); Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
	Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
	April 16, 1940, for the Philadelphia Phillies
Last MLB appearance
	June 27, 1948, for the Brooklyn Dodgers
MLB statistics
Batting average	.240
Home runs	15
Runs batted in	172
Managerial record	443–478
Winning %	.481
Teams
	As player Philadelphia Phillies (1940–1942); Brooklyn Dodgers (1943–1944, 1947–1948); As manager Pittsburgh Pirates (1956–1957); Cleveland Indians (1958); Milwaukee / Atlanta Braves (1963–1966); As coach Los Angeles Dodgers (1960); Houston Colt .45s (1962);

Robert Randall Bragan (October 30, 1917 – January 21, 2010) was an American shortstop, catcher, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball and an influential minor league executive. His professional baseball career encompassed 73 years, from his first season as a player in the Class D Alabama–Florida League in 1937, to 2009, the last full year of his life, when he was still listed as a consultant to the Texas Rangers' organization.

On August 16, 2005, Bragan donned a uniform to manage the independent Central League Fort Worth Cats for one game, making him—at 87 years, nine months, and 16 days old—the oldest manager in professional baseball annals, besting by one week Connie Mack, the manager and part-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics from 1901 through 1950. Always known as an innovator with a sense of humor—and an umpire-baiter—Bragan was ejected in the third inning of his "comeback", thus also becoming the oldest person in any capacity to be ejected from a professional baseball game.

Bragan died on January 21, 2010, of a heart attack at his home in Fort Worth.

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