Description: MANAGER OF THE YEARHank bauer of the Baltimore Orioles, named American League Manager of the Year today, holds up two local newspapers which bannered Baltimore's World Series victory. Bauer stopped at his Memorial Stadium office to clean up some odds and ends before heading for his Prairie Village, Kansas home. DATE SHOT: 10-10-1966 SUBJECT: Hank Bauer APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8"x11" MARKS / STAMPING: Caption is embedded in obverse image as is typical with wire photos. TYPE CLASSIFICATION: Type 3 COMMENTS / CONDITION: See scans for further details including condition. Henry Albert Bauer was born in 1922 in East St. Louis, IL and died in 2007 in Lenexa, KS. He played major league baseball from 1948 to 1961 as outfielder for the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics, appeared in the 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1958 World Series, and was selected 3 times as an All-Star. One month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Bauer enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. While in the South Pacific, Bauer contracted malaria, but recovered enough to earn 11 campaign ribbons, two Bronze Stars and a pair of Purple Hearts in 32 months of combat. His second injury came during the Battle of Okinawa, when he commanded a platoon of 64 men. Only six survived the brutal siege, with shrapnel hitting Bauer in the thigh and sending him home. Returning to East St. Louis, he joined the local pipefitter's union and stopped by a local bar where his brother Joe worked. Danny Menendez, a New York Yankees scout, signed him for a tryout with the team's farm club in Quincy, Illinois. The terms: $175 a month (a $25 increase if he made the team) and a $250 bonus. Batting .300 at Quincy and with the team's top minor league unit, the Kansas City Blues, Bauer eventually made his debut with the Bronx Bombers in September 1948. On June 19, 1961, he was named playing-manager of the Athletics, and he retired from the field a month later. In Bauer's first stint at A's pilot, through the end of the 1962 season, Kansas City won 107 games and lost 157 (.405) and twice finished ninth in the ten-team American League of the day. After his firing at the close of the 1962 campaign, Bauer spent the 1963 season as first-base coach of the Baltimore Orioles. He was elevated to manager at the end of the season, as the Orioles sought a firmer hand in command of the team. The move was successful: Baltimore contended aggressively for the 1964 American League pennant, finishing third, and then — bolstered by the acquisition of future Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson — its first AL pennant and World Series championship in 1966. But when the Orioles, hampered by an injury to Robinson, finished in the second division in 1967 and then fell far behind the eventual champion Detroit Tigers in 1968, Bauer was released as manager on July 12, in favor of Earl Weaver, then Baltimore's first-base coach. Bauer then returned to Finley and the A's, now in Oakland, for the 1969 campaign. He was fired for the second and final time by Finley after bringing Oakland home second in the new American League West Division. Overall, his regular-season managerial record was 594-544 (.522). Bauer managed the Tidewater Tides, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Mets, in 1971-72. The Tides made the finals of IL Governors' Cup playoffs each season, winning the playoff title in the latter campaign. Bauer then hung up his uniform, returning home to the Kansas City area, where he scouted for the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals. Explanation of Type Classifications: Type 1 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during the period (within two years of when the shot was taken). Type 2 = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, during a later period (more than two years after the shot was taken). Type 3 = A 2nd generation photograph, developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during the period. Type 4 = A 2nd generation photograph (or 3rd or later generation), developed from a duplicate negative or wire transmission, during a later period. Original = A 1st generation photograph, developed from the original negative, which appears to be of the period but for which a print date cannot be determined for definitive Type classification. Essentially, a photo we feel is a Type 1, but which lacks certain elements necessary for definitive dating of the print. For further information regarding "Type" classification of photographs, please refer to "A Portrait of Baseball Photography" by Fogel, Oser and Yee, and to PSA's website at http://www.psacard.com/Exhib/B-W-Photography/index.html.LF01
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