Jimmy Dykes

WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW HIM:
Sort of a Forrest Gump of baseball: he played during the Babe Ruth era and witnessed many of the greatest players of all time; he starred for the A’s when they captured three straight flags under Connie Mack; he played in Chicago and was in uniform for baseball’s first annual All-Star Game; his managerial career spanned four decades, and he remains the winningest skipper in White Sox history; he was the first manager to win 1,000 games and not win a pennant. He succeeded Mack as manager of the A’s, ending an era, and Dykes was the first man to manage the Baltimore Orioles in the American League. He was a teammate of Ty Cobb, played against Ted Williams, and managed against Mickey Mantle.