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Damn Yankees
Page 93
For 19 long seasons, Lopez served as a respected catcher with
outstanding defensive skills and a few All-Star Game appearances to his credit. But the teams he labored for; the Bonehead Dodgers and the Bad News Braves of the 1930s, and the woebegone Pirates of the 1940s, gave Lopez fat chance to race for the pennant.
Brought into the managerial ranks by the Cleveland Indians in 1951, the soft spoken, congenial Lopez embarked on a new kind of frustration; finishing second to the New York Yankees. In his first three years as manager, Lopez’s Indians won 92, 93 and 93