- Buddy Bailey
:"This article is about the baseball manager. Earl "Buddy" Bailey was a singer with the
doo wop groupThe Swallows .Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born
March 28 ,1957 inNorristown, Pennsylvania ) is the 2008 manager of theTennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League in Americanminor league baseball .He spent the 2007 season as pilot of the
Iowa Cubs of the Class AAAPacific Coast League before his appointment as the Smokies' manager onDecember 18 ,2007 . Iowa finished second overall in the PCL American North Division standings with a 79-65 record in 2007. Bailey joined the parentChicago Cubs organization in 2006 as its roving minor league catching instructor, before assuming the managerial reins in midseason as interim skipper of theDaytona Cubs of the Class AFlorida State League .A former catcher who never reached
Major League Baseball as a player, he managed in theAtlanta Braves organization from 1983 through 1990, winning the Southern League pennant as pilot of theGreenville Braves in 1988.Bailey joined the
Boston Red Sox as manager of their Class ALynchburg Red Sox affiliate in theCarolina League in 1991-92. He then became the ninth skipper in the history of the AAAPawtucket Red Sox in 1993, the youngest manager in team history at the time. He would lead the "PawSox" for seven seasons, spread over two terms (1993-96; 2002-04). Under Bailey, the PawSox played for the 2003Governors' Cup , the championship of theInternational League . They were defeated by theDurham Bulls . He won Manager of the Year twice in the IL, in 1996 and 2003, becoming one of only four managers to do that in league history.Bailey also spent one season (2000) as the bench coach for the parent Red Sox and was Boston's advance scout, coordinator of minor league instruction or roving catching instructor during the period of 1997-99 and in 2001.
He is the manager of Tigres de Aragua of venezuelan league (
LVBP ) since 2002 and has 4 championships, 1 sub-championship in 5 finals. Bailey was the Manager of the Year 2006-2007
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