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American baseball manager
Baseball player
Louie Heilbroner
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Manager
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Born:
(
1861-07-04
)
July 4, 1861
Fort Wayne, Indiana
, U.S.
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Died:
December 21, 1933
(1933-12-21)
(aged 72)
Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
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Batted:
Unknown
Threw:
Unknown
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Games managed
| 50
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Managerial record
| 23?25
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Winning percentage
| .479
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Louis Wilbur Heilbroner
(July 4, 1861 ? December 21, 1933) was a professional baseball secretary and business manager who
managed
the
St. Louis Cardinals
during the
1900
season.
In the middle of the season,
Patsy Tebeau
resigned as the Cardinals' manager and team president
Frank Robison
publicly offered the job to third baseman
John McGraw
, who declined despite his boss' insistence. Robinson then gave the manager title to Heilbroner who was serving as his secretary and who had no particular baseball qualifications. By many accounts, the diminutive Heilbroner (4'9 or 1,44m) never imposed his authority and McGraw was the
de facto
manager of the team and this was candidly acknowledged by the team owners.
[1]
[2]
After managing the last 50 games in 1900, Heilbroner was replaced by
Patsy Donovan
at the start of 1901. During his short stint as manager, Heilbroner led the Cardinals to 23 wins, 25 losses and 2 ties. He remained with the team as a business manager until 1908 and later served a two-year term (1912?1914) as president of the
Central League
.
[3]
Heilbroner was also a pioneer in
baseball statistics
. In 1909, he founded Heilbroner's Baseball Bureau Service, the first commercial statistical bureau dedicated to baseball, and began publishing the
Baseball Blue Book
.
[3]
He died on December 21, 1933, in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
.
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