Phillies History: 9 of 55 Managers That Won World Series

Oct 26, 2019

PHILADELPHIA - OCTOBER 21: Dallas Greene shakes hands with manager Charlie Manuel of the Philadelphia Phillies before taking on the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Five of the NLCS during the 2009 MLB Playoffs at Citizens Bank Park on October 21, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images) /

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(Original Caption) Pat Moran, Manager of the Cincinnati Reds, who are leading National League- he won a pennant for Philadelphia and then went with the Giants to help McGraw, leaving the Giants to be manager of the Cincinnati Reds. (Photo by George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images) /

Years as Phillies Manager: 1915-18
Years as Manager: 1915-23
Year(s) Winning the World Series (Team): 1919 (Cincinnati Reds)

Pat Moran was the 15th manager in Phillies history, and the second on this list to have started his managerial career with the Phillies.

In just his first season as Phillies skipper, Moran led the team its first-ever National League pennant and World Series appearance. The Phillies would lose 4 games to 1 against the Boston Red Sox, and would also lose the 1950 World Series (4-0 sweep against the New York Yankees) before finally winning it all in their third-ever appearance in 1980.

#OTD in 1919, the @Reds hired manager Pat Moran, who would lead the team to a World Series title that year. Moran replaced Heinie Groh, who had filled in for Christy Mathewson at the end of the 1918 season after Mathewson enlisted in the U.S. Army during WWI. pic.twitter.com/pYAJ2Cn7wM
— MLBPAA (@MLBPAA) January 30, 2018

Moran would manage the Phillies three more seasons, but could not get the team back to the World Series. He would find first-season magic again with the Cincinnati Reds in 1919, replacing Christy Mathewson “when no word is received” from him while he was in France with the U.S. Army during World War I, the Reds note.

Finally, he was able to win it all. The Reds’ 5 games to 3 World Series victory over the Chicago White Sox in 1919, amid the infamous Black Sox scandal, was their first in franchise history.

As Phillies skipper, Moran posted a combined 323-257-6 (.557) record over 586 games. With the Reds, however, he had a .564 winning percentage spanning 757 games, 425-329-3.

In addition to managing the Phillies from 1915 to 1918, Moran also played for them as catcher from 1910 to 1912, as well as 1914. He also played for the National League’s Boston Beaneaters (1901-05) and Chicago Cubs (1906-09).

2. Pat Moran, 1919