Bob Melvin is the current Oakland Athletics' manager.

The Oakland Athletics are a professional baseball team based in Oakland, California. Before moving to Oakland in 1968, the team played in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1901 through 1954 and in Kansas City, Missouri from 1955 through 1967.^[1][2][3] The Athletics are members of the American League (AL) West division in Major League Baseball (MLB). In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.^[4][5] The team has employed 30 different managers in its history.^[6] The current Athletics' manager is Bob Melvin.^[7]

The franchise's first manager was Hall of Famer Connie Mack, who managed the team for its first fifty seasons.^[8] Mack led the Athletics to nine AL championships and five World Series championships—in 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 and 1930.^[6][8][9] The team lost the World Series in 1905, 1914 and 1931, and no World Series was played when the Athletics won the AL championship in 1902.^[6][9] After Jimmy Dykes replaced Mack as the Athletics' manager in 1951, no manager served more than three consecutive seasons until Tony La Russa, who became the Athletics' manager in 1986.^[6] During this period, Dick Williams managed the Athletics to two consecutive World Series championships in 1972 and 1973, and Alvin Dark managed the team to a third consecutive World Series championship in 1974.^[6] La Russa managed the Athletics to three consecutive AL championships from 1988 through 1990, winning the World Series in 1989.^[6]

Connie Mack holds the Athletics' records for most games managed, 7,466; most wins as a manager, 3,582; and most losses as a manager, 3,814.^[6] Williams has the highest winning percentage of any Athletics manager, .603.^[6] Four managers have served multiple terms as the Athletics' manager. Connie Mack's son Earle Mack served as interim manager twice, in 1937 and 1939, when his father was ill.^[10][11] Hank Bauer served as the Athletics' manager from 1961 to 1962, and then again in 1969.^[12] Dark served as the Athletics' manager from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1974 to 1975.^[13] Jack McKeon started the 1977 season as the Athletics' manager, was replaced by Bobby Winkles after 53 games, and then replaced Winkles part way through the 1978 season.^[6][14] Five Athletics' managers have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame: Connie Mack, Lou Boudreau, Joe Gordon, Luke Appling and Williams.^[15][16] Mack and Williams were inducted into the Hall of Fame as managers.^[8][17] Boudreau, Gordon and Appling were inducted as players.^[18][19][20]

Key[edit]

#	A running total of the number of Athletics managers. Any manager who has two or more separate terms is counted only once.
G	Regular season games managed; may not equal sum of wins and losses due to tie games
W	Regular season wins
L	Regular season losses
Win%	Winning percentage
PA	Playoff appearances: number of years this manager has led the franchise to the playoffs
PW	Playoff wins
PL	Playoff losses
LC	League championships: number of league championships, or pennants, achieved by the manager
WS	World Series championships: number of World Series victories achieved by the manager
Ref	Reference
	Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame primarily as a manager
*	Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame primarily as a player

Managers[edit]

Connie Mack managed over 7,000 games for the Athletics.

Dick Williams managed the Athletics to two World Series championships.

Tony La Russa, shown here with the St. Louis Cardinals, managed 1,471 games for the Athletics.

Statistics current through 2014

#	Manager	Seasons	G	W	L	Win%	PA	PW	PL	LC	WS	Ref(s)
01 !1	Mack, ConnieConnie Mack	1901–1950	7,466	3,582	3,814	.484	08 !8	24 !24	19 !19	09 !9	05 !5	[8][21]
02 !2	Mack, EarleEarle Mack[a]	1937	34	15	17	.469	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[10]
025 !—	Mack, EarleEarle Mack[a]	1939	91	30	60	.333	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[10]
03 !3	Dykes, JimmyJimmy Dykes	1951–1953	466	208	254	.450	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[22]
04 !4	Joost, EddieEddie Joost	1954	156	51	103	.331	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[23]
05 !5	Boudreau, LouLou Boudreau*	1955–1957	413	151	260	.367	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[18]
06 !6	Craft, HarryHarry Craft	1957–1959	360	162	196	.453	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[24]
07 !7	Elliott, BobBob Elliott	1960	155	58	96	.377	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[25]
08 !8	Gordon, JoeJoe Gordon*	1961	60	26	33	.441	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[19]
09 !9	Bauer, HankHank Bauer	1961–1962	264	107	157	.405	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[12]
10 !10	Lopat, EdEd Lopat	1963–1964	214	90	124	.421	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[26]
11 !11	McGaha, MelMel McGaha	1964–1965	137	45	91	.331	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[27]
12 !12	Sullivan, HaywoodHaywood Sullivan	1965	136	54	82	.397	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[28]
13 !13	Dark, AlvinAlvin Dark	1966–1967	281	126	155	.448	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[13]
14 !14	Appling, LukeLuke Appling*	1967	40	10	30	.250	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[20]
15 !15	Kennedy, BobBob Kennedy	1968	163	82	80	.506	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[29]
155 !—	Bauer, HankHank Bauer	1969	149	80	69	.537	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[12]
16 !16	McNamara, JohnJohn McNamara	1969–1970	175	97	78	.554	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[30]
17 !17	Williams, DickDick Williams	1971–1973	478	288	190	.603	03 !3	14 !14	13 !13	02 !2	02 !2	[17][31]
175 !—	Dark, AlvinAlvin Dark	1974–1975	324	188	136	.580	02 !2	07 !7	05 !5	01 !1	01 !1	[13][32]
18 !18	Tanner, ChuckChuck Tanner	1976	161	87	74	.540	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[33]
19 !19	McKeon, JackJack McKeon	1977	53	26	27	.491	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[14]
20 !20	Winkles, BobbyBobby Winkles	1977–1978	147	61	86	.415	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[34]
205 !—	McKeon, JackJack McKeon	1978	123	45	78	.366	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[14]
21 !21	Marshall, JimJim Marshall	1979	162	54	108	.333	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[35]
22 !22	Martin, BillyBilly Martin	1980–1982	433	215	218	.497	01 !1	03 !3	03 !3	000 !0	000 !0	[36][37]
23 !23	Boros, SteveSteve Boros	1983–1984	206	94	112	.456	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[38]
24 !24	Moore, JackieJackie Moore	1984–1986	353	163	190	.462	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[39]
25 !25	Newman, JeffJeff Newman	1986	10	2	8	.200	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[40]
26 !26	La Russa, TonyTony La Russa	1986–1995	1,471	798	673	.542	04 !4	19 !19	13 !13	03 !3	01 !1	[41][42]
27 !27	Howe, ArtArt Howe	1996–2002	1,133	600	533	.530	03 !3	06 !6	09 !9	000 !0	000 !0	[43][44]
28 !28	Macha, KenKen Macha	2003–2006	648	368	280	.568	02 !2	05 !5	07 !7	000 !0	000 !0	[45][46]
29 !29	Geren, BobBob Geren	2007–2011	710	334	376	.470	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	00 !—	[47]
30 !30	Melvin, BobBob Melvin	2011–present	585	325	260	.556	03 !3	04 !4	07 !7	00 !0	00 !0	[48]

Managers with multiples tenures[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

• ^a Although Earle Mack managed the team for parts of the 1937 and 1939 seasons, he did so in the capacity of an interim manager while his father, Connie Mack, was ill.^[11]

References[edit]