The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Before moving to Oakland in 1968, the team played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1901 through 1954 and in Kansas City, Missouri from 1955 through 1967. The Athletics are members of the American League West division in Major League Baseball. In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy andleadership on and off the field. The team has employed 30 different managers in its history. The current Athletics' manager is Bob Melvin. The franchise's first manager was Hall of FamerConnie Mack, who managed the team for its first fifty seasons. Mack led the Athletics to nine AL championships and five World Series championships—in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 and 1930. The team lost the World Series in 1905, 1914 and 1931, and no World Series was played when the Athletics won the AL championship in 1902. After Jimmy Dykes replaced Mack as the Athletics' manager in 1951, no manager served more than three consecutive seasons until Tony La Russa, who became the Athletics' manager in 1986. During this period, Dick Williams managed the Athletics to two consecutive World Series championships in 1972 and 1973, and Alvin Dark managed the team to a third consecutive World Series championship in 1974. La Russa managed the Athletics to three consecutive AL championships from 1988 through 1990, winning the World Series in 1989. Connie Mack holds the Athletics' records for most games managed, 7,466; most wins as a manager, 3,582; and most losses as a manager, 3,814. Williams has the highest winning percentage of any Athletics manager,.603. Four managers have served multiple terms as the Athletics' manager. Connie Mack's son Earle Mack served as interim manager twice, in 1937 and 1939, when his father was ill. Hank Bauer served as the Athletics' manager from 1961 to 1962, and then again in 1969. Dark served as the Athletics' manager from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1974 to 1975. Jack McKeon started the 1977 season as the Athletics' manager, was replaced by Bobby Winkles after 53 games, and then replaced Winkles part way through the 1978 season. Five Athletics' managers have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Connie Mack, Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, Luke Appling and Williams. Mack and Williams were inducted into the Hall of Fame as managers. Boudreau, Gordon and Appling were inducted as players.
Key
Managers
#
Manager
Seasons
G
W
L
Win%
PA
PW
PL
LC
WS
Ref
1901–1950
7,466
3,582
3,814
.484
1937
34
15
17
.469
1939
91
30
60
.333
1951–1953
466
208
254
.450
1954
156
51
103
.331
*
1955–1957
413
151
260
.367
1957–1959
360
162
196
.453
1960
155
58
96
.377
*
1961
60
26
33
.441
1961–1962
264
107
157
.405
1963–1964
214
90
124
.421
1964–1965
137
45
91
.331
1965
136
54
82
.397
1966–1967
281
126
155
.448
*
1967
40
10
30
.250
1968
163
82
80
.506
1969
149
80
69
.537
1969–1970
175
97
78
.554
1971–1973
478
288
190
.603
1974–1975
324
188
136
.580
1976
161
87
74
.540
1977
53
26
27
.491
1977–1978
147
61
86
.415
1978
123
45
78
.366
1979
162
54
108
.333
1980–1982
433
215
218
.497
1983–1984
206
94
112
.456
1984–1986
353
163
190
.462
1986
10
2
8
.200
1986–1995
1,471
798
673
.542
1996–2002
1,133
600
533
.530
2003–2006
648
368
280
.568
2007–2011
710
334
376
.470
2011–present
1395
731
664
.524
Managers with multiples tenures
Footnotes
Although Earle Mack managed the team for parts of the 1937 and 1939 seasons, he did so in the capacity of an interim manager while his father, Connie Mack, was ill.
