Wayne Blackburn

Wayne Blackburn

Wayne Tennyson Blackburn (born July 10, 1914 in Mount Joy, Ohio - died February 16, 2000 in Portsmouth, Ohio) was a major league baseball coach and minor league player-manager.

Blackburn was an infielder nineteen years (1936-1956), all in the minor leagues, losing one year to military service and one year to inactivity. Blackburn drew over 1400 walks in 2016 minor league games. From 1948-1956, he had 715 hits and 742 walks in 711 games. He led the 1936 KITTY League with 124 runs, the 1943 American Association with 114 runs, and the 1951 KITTY with 116 runs. He also led the 1948 Southern Association with 36 SB.

Blackburn was briefly a player-manager at the end of the season in 1937 for the Peoria Reds of the Three-I League. Blackburn really began his managerial career in 1951 with the Owensboro Oilers. He moved to the Detroit Tigers farm system, where he was a player-manager in the minors (1952-1954, 1956), minor league manager (1958, 1965-1966, 1968) and major league coach (1963-1964).

His Kinston Eagles had the best record in the 1952 Coastal Plain League, as did the Augusta Tigers of the South Atlantic League he took over in mid-1958. His teams also lost in the playoffs in 1953 and 1954.

Blackburn would scout for the Detroit Tigers into at least the mid-1980's.

He married Jeanne Anderson on October 14, 1939. He served in the U.S. Army as a TEC 4 during World War II (1945). He died at age 86 at a VA Hospital in Portsmouth, Ohio and is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth.

Year-by-Year Managerial Record

References

* For a full [http://www.baseballindex.org/tbi.asp?a=srch&do=true&src=ppl&txtfname=Wayne%20&txtlname=Blackburn Bibliography from SABR's The Baseball Index (TBI)]
* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Wayne_Blackburn BR bullpen]
*cite book | author=Gaunt, Robert| title=We Would Have Played Forever: The Story of the Coastal Plain Baseball League | publisher=Baseball America, Inc. | year=1997 | id=ISBN 0-945-16402-5
* The Professional Baseball Players Database 5.0
* [http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/det/history/coaches.jsp All-time Tiger coaches]


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