A manager, a catcher, and a second baseman. They won multiple World Series together. What do they have in common?
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Winning multiple world series together.
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The three people must be Stengel, Berra, and Martin. They have a lot in common. They all managed the Yankees. They all managed teams in New York at least twice in their career (Berra 3: Yankees, Mets, then Yankees again, Stengel: Yankees, then Mets, and Martin: Yankees, then Yankees, then Yankees, then Yankees, then Yankess, and so on). Umm… They all managed in both leagues. They all played in New York (Stengel for the Giants). The Yankees retired their numbers? Ugh, even when it’s about something I know about I suck. Hell, you probably don’t even mean those three guys.Report
Well, I’m with you that they’re likely to be Yankees. So how’s about… Each one broke the record for highest-paid ever at their position? That’s Yankee baseball for ya!Report
If you Google Image “Billy Martin”, most of the photos are of someone I would be tickled pink to see the Yankees hire as manager.Report
They once walked into a bar togetherReport
What do they have in common…wait, are you about to “out” them?Report
Their name is Pete Rose?Report
Baseball reference doesn’t think Rose ever caught, pitched, or played shortstop. The other six positions, yes.
Connie Mack played a couple of games at second, but he’s not the answer.Report
Tuesday hint:
They are indeed Yankees.Report
McCarthy, Dickey, and Gordon? Ugh, I have no idea what they have in common, other than being Yankees and hall of famers.Report
Second Tuesday hint:
What they have in common is not directly related to baseball.Report
They all have exceptional hand-eye coordination?Report
They were Yankees that went on to be winning NYC politicians?Report
Dentures?Report
Wednesday hint:
The number of World Series they all won together is loosely speaking six but more strictly four.Report
Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, and Yogi Berra, all of whom won World Series both as a player and as a manager or coach?Report
Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra , Jerry Coleman.
They won four WS together with Coleman not participating in the 52, 53 WS wins on account of War.Report
Oh man, I didn’t think about Coleman, but given that he died just a few days ago, it makes sense that Mike would include him in a question.Report
Don’t know what they have in common, tho. Bad teeth?Report
They all lived into their 80s? Berra is the only surviving member of that trio, and he’s 88.Report
They all managed or played in both leagues?Report
They were all Damn Yankees? (as in, they were in the movie?)Report
Stengel, Berra, Coleman is correct. What’s the connection?Report
They’re all in the HOF, but for different reasons – Stengel as a manager, Berra as a player, and Coleman as a broadcaster.Report
I hope the answer is that they are all left handed, or maybe have the same birthday or zodiac sign or something.Report
zodiac sign
Negative.Report
Active with the Boy Scouts as adults?Report
Something to do with malapropisms?Report
Casey:
“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.”
Yogi:
“I never said most of the things I said.”
Jerry:
“Winfield goes back to the wall, he hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It’s rolling all the way back to second base. This is a terrible thing for the Padres.”
What they had in common was their interesting relationship with the English language.Report
That Jerry Coleman quote is one of my favorite of all time. I can’t believe I had forgotten about it.Report