Harry Warner (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Harry Warner (baseball)

American baseball player and coach

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1928

Place of Birth: Reeders, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 11-Apr-2015

Profession: baseball manager, baseball player

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Harry Warner (baseball)

  • Harry Clinton Warner (December 11, 1928 – April 11, 2015) was an American coach in Major League Baseball and a former first baseman and manager at the minor league level.
  • He served as a coach for the Toronto Blue Jays during their first three seasons (1977–79) in the American League, and was a member of the Milwaukee Brewers' staff in 1982, the first and only Brewer team to win an American League pennant. Warner's 17-year playing career (1946–62) peaked at the Double-A level.
  • He spent much of his active career in the farm systems of the Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves and the Washington Senators.
  • In his finest season, 1954, he batted .317 with 17 home runs for the Salem Senators of the Class A Western International League.
  • Overall, he hit .279 in 1,671 minor league games with 147 home runs.
  • Warner batted left-handed and threw right-handed, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg). His managing career began in 1960 with the Class D Erie Sailors of the New York–Penn League, a Washington affiliate.
  • He remained with the organization (the Minnesota Twins after the 1960 campaign) and managed at all levels of the minor leagues through 1976.
  • The following season, he joined the coaching staff of the first Blue Jay manager, Roy Hartsfield, and worked with him for three seasons.
  • In 1980, Hartsfield was succeeded by Bobby Mattick as Toronto's manager, and Warner managed the Jays' Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs farm club of the International League before rejoining the Toronto coaching staff for the final month of the season. In 1981, he became the third-base coach of the Brewers and in his two seasons in that post the Brewers made the 1981 playoffs, then won the 1982 AL pennant.
  • His managing career concluded with a return to the Twins' organization in 1983, when he led the Class A Visalia Oaks of the California League to a division title.
  • One of his players that season with future Twins star Kirby Puckett. All told, Warner accumulated 1,129 wins and 1,067 losses (.514) in 19 seasons as a minor league manager.
  • Later in the 1980s, Warner scouted for the Twins and then the San Diego Padres, based in Reeders, Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
  • He died at age 86 in Reeders.

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