Bottom line: Eddie Stanky, famously portrayed as a player in the Jackie Robinson biopic "42," was in his early 60s when he answered the call to manage the Rangers, who’d just fired Frank Luchessi midway through the season.
Stanky, who hadn’t managed since being with the White Sox in 1968, apparently was overwhelmed by the attitudes of modern players and missed his native Alabama, where he was the head coach at the University of South Alabama.
He coached one game, a win, resigned just 18 hours after he’d been named coach and got his job back at the college.
The next man up to manage the Rangers, Connie Ryan, lasted six games.