Bill James Guide To Baseball Managers, The - Plot & Excerpts
They had two Triple-A teams, Montreal in the International League and St. Paul in the American Association, and they used Ft. Worth in the Texas League, although technically Double-A, almost in the same way as the other two teams. There were sixteen major league teams then and twenty-four Triple-A teams, plus the Senators didn’t have their farm system organized yet, and didn’t have a Triple-A team. The Dodger farm system was so strong that if the Dodger team plane had crashed, the Dodgers could have put together a contending team from the players trapped at Triple-A. Not some or many, but most of the dominant field managers in baseball since 1960 were products of that extraordinary St. Paul-Montreal-Brooklyn-Fort Worth axis. Tommy Lasorda, of course, played for Walt Alston at Montreal and in Brooklyn, and coached for him for years. Don Zimmer played for St. Paul in 1953 and 1954 and came to the majors under Walt Alston in 1954.
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