pat CorParales, 82, passes away as the manager of three major league teams
He managed clubs in Texas, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. He was the first manager in the major leagues of Mexican heritage and a former catcher.
Pat Corrales during his tenure as an Atlanta Braves coach in 1999. His time with the Braves, which spanned from 1990 to 2006, was contemporaneous with the team’s rise to prominence in Major League Baseball.Give credit…The New York Times/Barton Silverman
Pat Corrales passed away on Sunday at his home in the mountains of north Georgia. Prior to spending a significant amount of time as the Atlanta Braves’ coach under Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox, Corrales managed the Texas Rangers, Cleveland Indians, and Philadelphia Phillies. He was eighty-two, the first manager of Mexican heritage in Major League Baseball.
The Dodgers of Los Angeles verified his death. Having joined the Dodgers front office in 2012, he most recently served as the general manager’s special assistant.
During his somewhat uneventful big league career, Los Angeles native Corrales played as a backup catcher for four different clubs, accumulating a.216 average, four home runs, and 54 runs batted in nine seasons. In the 1970 World Series, he played in his lone playoffs as a player with the Cincinnati Reds. He grounded out to Brooks Robinson to seal the Baltimore Orioles’ five-game triumph.
Corrales’ post-playing career garnered far more notoriety. When he took over the Rangers as a coach for the team’s last game of the 1978 season, he became the first manager of major league baseball of Mexican heritage.
He managed the Rangers for two complete seasons, concluding with a 160-164 record. When the Phillies appointed him as manager in 1982, he managed the club for only one complete season, finishing 89-73. The next season, with the squad leading the National League East but finishing with a poor 43-42 record, saw him sacked in the midst of the season.
In his place, the Phillies’ general manager, Paul Owens, switched to the dugout and led the club to the World Series, where they met with defeat in five games against Baltimore.
Corrales didn’t lose his job for very long. Cleveland promptly hired him, and he managed the team for the remainder of the 1983 season and for the next five. Cleveland recovered from their 1985 season, which ended in 102 losses, to finish 84-78 the next year. However, with the squad stuck at 31-56, he was dismissed in 1987. His Cleveland score was 280-355 total.
Corrales then served as a member of Cox’s coaching staff for a considerable amount of time, from 1990 to 2006. During that time, the Braves were starting to become a major league powerhouse, winning a World Series in 1995 and a record 14 consecutive division victories.
In front of a game this week in Colorado, Braves Manager Brian Snitker said, “During that run, he was the guy, doing a lot of the heavy lifting.” “He was a baseball guy all the way around.”
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Corrales worked as a dugout coach with the Washington Nationals until the end of his career. In 1989, he also served as a coach with the Yankees.
Donna Myers Corrales, his 40-year spouse, two daughters, Rena Hammerness and Patricia Collins, and a son, Jason, survive him. Prior to him had passed away Michele Pollitt, a daughter, and Patrick, another son.
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