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Phillies History: 9 of 55 Managers That Won World Series

By Matt Rappa

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)
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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6. Dallas Green, 1980

Former Phillies manager Dallas Green.
HOUSTON, TX – OCTOBER 12: Manager Dallas Green, coach Ruben Amaro #12 and Pete Rose #14 of the Philadelphia Phillies celebrate in the locker room after the Phillies defeated the Houston Astros in Game 5 of the 1980 National League Championship Series on October 12, 1980 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. (Photo by B Bennett/Bruce Bennett Studios via Getty Images Studios/Getty Images) /
  • Years as Phillies Manager: 1979-81
  • Years as Manager: 1979-81, 1989, 1993-96
  • Year(s) Winning the World Series (Team): 1980 (Philadelphia Phillies)

Dallas Green was the 40th manager in Phillies history, and the first of two on the list to have won the World Series while with the team. Green is the fourth on this list to have started his managerial career with the Phillies.

Green, Bucky Harris, and soon Joe Girardi will be the only three to have managed both the Phillies and New York Yankees, notes Bob Vetrone Jr.

Midseason in 1979, Green replaced Danny Ozark, who posted a 65-67 record. He would finish the year with a 19-11 record, before ultimately leading the 1980 Phillies — led by Mike Schmidt, Greg Luzinski, Pete Rose, Bob Boone, Garry Maddox, Larry Bowa, Steve Carlton, and others — to the organization’s first-ever World Series championship.

Green posted a combined 169-130 (.565) record in the 299 games he managed the Phillies. After his last season in 1981, he wouldn’t manage again until 1989 with the New York Yankees (56-65, .463). A few years later, he would manage the New York Mets to a combined 229-283 (.447) record over parts of four seasons, from 1993 to 1996.

Green passed away in the city he won it all on March 22, 2017. He was 82 years old.

On the day he passed, Bowa told NBC Sports Philadelphia’s John Clark, “We don’t win the World Series in 1980 without Dallas Green. He will never be forgotten in Philadelphia.”

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