Editing Yogi Berra (section)

===Major leagues===
[[File:Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|Berra with [[Hank Bauer]] and [[Mickey Mantle]], [[1953 New York Yankees season|1953]]]]
Berra was called up to the Yankees and played his first game on September 22, 1946; he played 7 games that season and 83 games in 1947. He played in more than a hundred games in each of the following 14 years. Berra appeared in 14 [[World Series]], including 10 World Series championships, both of which are records. In part because Berra's playing career coincided with the Yankees' most consistent period of World Series participation, he established Series records for the most games (75), [[at bat]]s (259), [[Hit (baseball)|hits]] (71), [[Double (baseball)|doubles]] (10), [[Single (baseball)|singles]] (49), games caught (63), and catcher [[putout]]s (457). In Game 3 of the [[1947 World Series]], Berra hit the first pinch-hit home run in World Series history,<ref name="stats">{{cite web | title = Statistics | publisher = Yogi Berra Museum | url = http://yogiberramuseum.org/statistics/ | access-date = September 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923150442/http://yogiberramuseum.org/statistics/ | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref> off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher [[Ralph Branca]] (who later gave up [[Bobby Thomson]]'s famous [[Shot Heard 'Round the World (baseball)|Shot Heard 'Round the World]] in 1951).<ref>{{Cite news | title = Yogi Berra dead at 90: Yankees legend, Baseball Hall of Famer was lovable character, American hero |last1=Marcius |first1=Chelsia Rose |first2=Larry |last2=McShane | last3 = Madden | first3 = Bill |author-link3=Bill Madden (sportswriter) | newspaper = [[New York Daily News|Daily News]] | url = http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/baseball-legend-yogi-berra-dead-90-mlb-article-1.2370848 | date = September 23, 2015 | access-date = September 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923141452/http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/baseball-legend-yogi-berra-dead-90-mlb-article-1.2370848 | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news | title = Bobby Thomson Dies at 86; Hit Epic Home Run | last = Goldstein | first = Richard |author-link=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942) | newspaper = The New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/sports/baseball/18thomson.html?_r=0 | date = August 17, 2010 | access-date = September 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161007075314/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/sports/baseball/18thomson.html?_r=0 | archive-date = October 7, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref>

Berra was an [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] for 15 seasons,<ref name=NatBHoF /> and was selected to 18 All-Star Games (MLB held two All-Star Games in 1959 through 1962<ref>Donnelly, Patrick (2012).[http://www.sportsdatallc.com/2012/07/09/midsummer-classics-celebrating-mlbs-all-star-game "Midsummer Classics: Celebrating MLB's All-Star Game"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330031638/http://www.sportsdatallc.com/2012/07/09/midsummer-classics-celebrating-mlbs-all-star-game/ |date=March 30, 2015 }}. "there were two games a year from 1959 to 1962" ..."all players who were named to the AL or NL roster were credited one appearance per season." SportsData. Retrieved April 12, 2015</ref>).<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berrayo01.shtml "Yogi Berra"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328055426/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/berrayo01.shtml |date=March 28, 2018 }}. Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved April 29, 2015</ref> He won the American League (AL) [[Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award|MVP]] award in 1951, 1954, and 1955; Berra never finished lower than fourth in the MVP voting from 1950 to 1957.<ref name="stats" /> He received MVP votes in 15 consecutive seasons, tied with [[Barry Bonds]] and second only to [[Hank Aaron]]'s 19 straight seasons with MVP support.<ref>{{cite web | title = Yogi Berra Baseball Stats | publisher = Baseball Almanac | url = http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=berrayo01 | access-date = September 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925232145/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=berrayo01 | archive-date = September 25, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref> From 1949 to 1955, on a team filled with stars such as [[Mickey Mantle]] and [[Joe DiMaggio]], it was Berra who led the Yankees in [[Run batted in|RBI]] for seven consecutive seasons.<ref>''Collecting Sports Legends'' (2008) by Joe Orlando, pp. 84</ref> Probably the most notable game of Berra's playing career came when he caught [[Don Larsen]]'s [[Don Larsen's perfect game|perfect game]] in the [[1956 World Series]], the first of only three [[no-hitter]]s, and lone "perfecto"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mlb.com/news/all-time-perfect-games | title=A look at all 24 perfect games in AL/NL history | website=[[MLB.com]] }}</ref> ever thrown in [[MLB postseason]] play.<ref>[http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=301006122 "Roy Halladay throws second no-hitter in postseason history"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005050118/http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=301006122 |date=October 5, 2014 }}. [[ESPN]]. October 7, 2010</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore/_/gameId/401467559|title=Astros 5-0 Phillies (Nov 2, 2022) Box Score|website=ESPN}}</ref> The picture of Berra leaping into Larsen's arms following Dale Mitchell's called third strike to end the game is one of the sport's most memorable images.<ref>{{Cite news | title = 56 years later, Don Larsen and Yogi Berra reminisce about perfect game | last = Klopsis | first = Nick | work = Newsday | url = https://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/56-years-later-don-larsen-and-yogi-berra-reminisce-about-perfect-game-b84403 | date = October 8, 2012 | access-date = September 22, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180847/http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/yankees/56-years-later-don-larsen-and-yogi-berra-reminisce-about-perfect-game-1.4089156 | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref>

====Playing style====
Berra was excellent at hitting pitches outside of the strike zone, covering all areas of the [[strike zone]] (as well as beyond) with great extension. In addition to this wide plate coverage, he also had great bat control. He was able both to swing the [[Baseball bat|bat]] like a [[golf club]] to hit low pitches for deep home runs and to chop at high pitches for [[Batted ball|line drives]]. Whether changing speeds or location, pitcher [[Early Wynn]] soon discovered that "Berra moves right with you."<ref name=RK:OM>Kahn, Roger. (2003). [https://books.google.com/books?id=W-EI-7OhJ9QC&pg=PA174 "The Gathering Storm"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514143930/https://books.google.com/books?id=W-EI-7OhJ9QC&pg=PA174 |date=May 14, 2016 }}. '' October Men: Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978''. Orlando, Florida: Harcourt. p. 174. {{ISBN|0-15-100628-8}}. Retrieved September 18, 2015.</ref> Five times, Berra had more [[home run]]s than [[strikeout]]s in a season, striking out just twelve times in 597 at-bats in 1950. The combination of bat control and plate coverage made Berra a feared "[[clutch hitter]]", proclaimed by rival manager [[Paul Richards (baseball)|Paul Richards]] "the toughest man in the league in the last three innings". Contrasting him with teammate [[Mickey Mantle]], Wynn declared Berra "the real toughest clutch hitter", grouping him with Cleveland slugger [[Al Rosen]] as "the two best clutch hitters in the game".<ref name=RK:OM />

As a catcher Berra was outstanding: quick, mobile, and a great handler of pitchers, Berra led all American League catchers eight times in games caught and in [[Total chances|chances accepted]], six times in [[double play]]s (a major-league record), eight times in putouts, three times in [[Assist (baseball)|assists]], and once in [[fielding percentage]]. Berra left the game with the AL records for catcher putouts (8,723) and chances accepted (9,520). He was also one of only four catchers ever to field 1.000 in a season, playing 88 errorless games in 1958. He was the first catcher to leave one finger outside his glove, a style that most other catchers eventually emulated.<ref>{{cite web | title = Berra was great, which was as close to good as possible | last = Acocella | first = Nick | publisher = ESPN | url = http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Berra_Yogi | date = October 18, 2006 | access-date = November 29, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121107052231/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/classic/bio/news/story?page=Berra_Yogi | archive-date = November 7, 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref> [[Tom Sturdivant]], who pitched for the Yankees from 1955 to 1959, said "I can't say enough for Yogi Berra. It gives a young pitcher a lot of confidence to have a fellow like Berra calling the pitches. No one could set up the hitters better."<ref name="Sturdivant carried">{{cite web|page=33|last=Sheehan|first=Joseph M.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1956/10/08/121453396.html?pageNumber=33|title=Sturdivant No New Hand at Rescue Operations|work=The New York Times|date=October 8, 1956|access-date=November 21, 2020}}</ref>

At age 37 in June 1962, Berra showed his superb physical endurance by catching an entire 22-inning, seven-hour game against the [[Detroit Tigers]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Sunday, June 24, 1962, New York Yankees | website = Baseball Reference | url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET196206240.shtml | access-date = August 15, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130918051525/http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET196206240.shtml | archive-date = September 18, 2013 | url-status = live }}</ref> [[Casey Stengel]], Berra's manager during most of his playing career with the Yankees and with the Mets in 1965, once said, "I never play a game without my man."<ref name="Shutouts">{{Cite encyclopedia | title = Trivia December 2010 – Career Shutouts Caught | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers | url = http://bb_catchers.tripod.com/catchers/tmonth1.htm | access-date = 29 December 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180820234857/http://bb_catchers.tripod.com/catchers/tmonth1.htm | archive-date = August 20, 2018 | url-status = live }}</ref> Later in his career, Berra became a good defensive outfielder in [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]]'s notoriously difficult left field.<ref>{{Cite book
 | title = The Yankee Encyclopedia | last = Gallagher | first = Mark | year = 2003 | page = 31}}</ref>

====Yankee manager and harmonica incident====
[[File:Yogi Berra 1969.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|Berra as the Mets' first base coach, [[1969 New York Mets season|1969]]]]
After spending {{mlby|1963}} as a player-coach—he appeared in 64 games (35 as a catcher and 29 as a pinch hitter, batting .293 in 164 at bats), and held down the Yankee's first-base coaching job otherwise—Berra retired as an active player after the [[1963 World Series]] and was immediately named to succeed [[Ralph Houk]] as manager of the Yankees.

The so-called [[Harmonica Incident]] occurred aboard the team bus in August 1964. Following a loss, infielder [[Phil Linz]] was playing his harmonica, and Berra ordered him to stop. Seated on the other end of the bus, Linz could not hear what Berra had said, and [[Mickey Mantle]] impishly informed Linz, "He said to play it louder." When Linz did so, an angry Berra slapped the harmonica out of his hands.<ref>{{Cite book | title = Ball Four | last = Bouton | first = Jim | year = 1970 | publisher = Wiley | location = New York | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3cgcAQAAIAAJ | isbn = 9780020306658 | access-date = October 9, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160424072547/https://books.google.com/books?id=3cgcAQAAIAAJ | archive-date = April 24, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref>

All was apparently forgotten when the Yankees rode a September surge to return to the World Series, but the team lost to the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in seven games, after which Berra was fired. Houk, who was general manager at the time, later said the decision to fire Berra was made in late August and that the incident with Linz had nothing to do with it. Although he did not elaborate, Houk said that he and the rest of the Yankee brain trust did not feel Berra was ready to manage.<ref name=Houk1965>{{cite news | title = Notes: His biggest mistake was Yogi, Houk says | last = Reichler | first = Joe | newspaper = [[The Tuscaloosa News]] | agency = Associated Press | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19650228&id=ZRQfAAAAIBAJ&pg=4087,3836543 | date = February 28, 1965 | access-date = July 14, 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160506015253/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19650228&id=ZRQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EJsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4087,3836543 | archive-date = May 6, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref> Players, however, said the incident actually solidified his managerial authority and helped him lead them to the Series.<ref name="DeVito book">{{Cite book | title = Yogi: The Life & Times of an American Original | last1 = DeVito | first1 = Carlo | publisher = Triumph Books | page = 244 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3tD0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244 | date = 2014 | access-date = August 8, 2015 | isbn = 9781600789663 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160514083814/https://books.google.com/books?id=3tD0AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244 | archive-date = May 14, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref>

====Coach of the New York Mets and Houston Astros====
Berra was immediately signed by the crosstown [[New York Mets]] as a coach. He also put in four cameo appearances as a catcher early in the season. His last at-bat came on May 9, 1965, three days shy of his 40th birthday. Berra stayed with the Mets as a coach under Stengel, [[Wes Westrum]], [[Salty Parker]], and [[Gil Hodges]] for the next seven seasons, including their 1969 World Series Championship season. He then became the team's manager in 1972, following Hodges' unexpected death in spring training.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Remembering 'Grampa' Yogi's Mets career | last = Berra | first = Lindsay | agency = MLB.com | url = http://m.mlb.com/news/article/53533004/ | date = July 12, 2013 | access-date = September 22, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923142157/http://m.mlb.com/news/article/53533004/ | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

The following season looked like a disappointment at first. Injuries plagued the Mets throughout the season. Midway through the 1973 season, the Mets were stuck in last place but in a very tight divisional race. In July, when a reporter asked Yogi if the season was over, he replied, "It ain't over 'til it's over."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34324865|title=How people started saying 'It ain't over till it's over'|work=BBC.com|date=September 23, 2015|access-date=February 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216062330/http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34324865|archive-date=February 16, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

As the Mets' key players came back to the lineup, a late surge allowed them to win the NL East despite an 82–79 record, making it the only time from 1970 through 1980 that the NL East was not won by either their [[Mets–Phillies rivalry|rival]] [[Philadelphia Phillies]] or the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]].<ref name=ExclusiveReign>{{cite web |title = Notes: Phils–Pirates rivalry fading |last = Von Benko |first = George |publisher = Major League Baseball |website = Philadelphia Phillies |quote = From 1974 to 1980, the [[Philadelphia Phillies|Phillies]] and [[Pittsburgh Pirates|Pirates]] won all seven National League East titles (Phillies four, Pirates three). |url = http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050707&content_id=1119893&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |date = July 7, 2005 |access-date = January 3, 2011 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110714103810/http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050707&content_id=1119893&vkey=news_phi&fext=.jsp&c_id=phi |archive-date = July 14, 2011 |df= mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=PiratesFirstThreePeat>{{Cite news | title = Pirates perform rare three-peat feat 4–2| newspaper = USA Today | page = 5C | quote = The Pirates...won three (NL East titles) in a row from 1970 to 1972. | date = September 28, 1992}}</ref> When the Mets faced the 99-win Cincinnati Reds in the [[1973 National League Championship Series]], a memorable fight erupted between [[Bud Harrelson]] and [[Pete Rose]] in the top of the fifth inning of game three. After the incident and the ensuing bench-clearing brawl had subsided, fans began throwing objects at Rose when he returned to his position in left field in the bottom half of the inning. [[Sparky Anderson]] pulled Rose and his Reds off the field until order was restored. When National League president [[Chub Feeney]] threatened the Mets with a forfeit, Berra walked out to left field with [[Willie Mays]], [[Tom Seaver]], [[Rusty Staub]], and [[Cleon Jones]] in order to plead with the fans to desist.<ref>{{cite web | title = Our World Fall 1973 Part 1 | publisher = [[YouTube]] | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUXJ4Exlh8 | date = August 19, 2009 | access-date = August 15, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140522172939/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyUXJ4Exlh8 | archive-date = May 22, 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref> Yogi's Mets went on to defeat the highly favored "[[Big Red Machine]]" in five games to capture the NL pennant. It was Berra's second as a manager, one in each league. The Mets fell to the [[Oakland Athletics]] in the [[1973 World Series]], but they went the distance in a close, seven-game, series.<ref>{{Cite news | title = The 1973 Mets: A year to believe | last = Wright | first = Brian | agency = Amazin' Avenue | url = http://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/9/12/4686398/1973-mets-ya-gotta-believe | date = September 12, 2013 | access-date = September 22, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923180132/http://www.amazinavenue.com/2013/9/12/4686398/1973-mets-ya-gotta-believe | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref>

[[File:Yogi Berra 1981.JPG|thumb|Berra hitting with a [[Baseball bat#Fungo bat|fungo bat]] prior to a game in 1981]]
Berra's tenure as Mets manager ended with his firing on August 5, 1975. He had a record of 298 wins and 302 losses, which included the 1973 postseason. In 1976, he rejoined the Yankees as a coach. The team won its first of three consecutive AL titles, as well as the [[1977 World Series]] and [[1978 World Series]], and (as had been the case throughout his playing days) Berra's reputation as a lucky charm was reinforced. [[Casey Stengel]] once said of his catcher, "He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch."<ref>{{cite web | title = Yogi Berra Quotes | work = Baseball-Almanac.com | url = http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml | access-date = August 15, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130911181941/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoberra.shtml | archive-date = September 11, 2013 | url-status = live }}</ref> Berra was named Yankees manager before the 1984 season. Berra agreed to stay in the job for 1985 after receiving assurances that he would not be terminated, but impatient [[George Steinbrenner]] reneged, firing Berra anyway after the 16th game of the season. Moreover, instead of firing him personally, Steinbrenner dispatched [[Clyde King]] to deliver the news for him.<ref>{{cite web | title = The List: Steinbrenner's worst | last = Merron | first = Jeff | work = ESPN.com | url = https://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/steinbrenner.html | date = June 16, 2003 | access-date = August 15, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105223110/http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/steinbrenner.html | archive-date = November 5, 2012 | url-status = live }}</ref> The incident caused a rift between Berra and Steinbrenner that was not mended for almost 15 years.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Yogi and Boss End Feud Hug and Make Up at Berra's N.J. Museum | last = Bondy | first = Filip | newspaper = [[New York Daily News]] | url = http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/yogi-boss-feud-hug-berra-n-museum-article-1.838194 | date = January 6, 1999 | access-date = September 24, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925113917/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/yogi-boss-feud-hug-berra-n-museum-article-1.838194 | archive-date = September 25, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref>

Berra joined the [[Houston Astros]] as bench coach in 1985,<ref>{{Cite news | title = Hall of Famer Yogi Berra joins Houston Astros staff | work = Kentucky New Era | date = November 19, 1985}}</ref> where he again made it to the [[1986 National League Championship Series|NLCS in 1986]]. The Astros lost the series in six games to the Mets.<ref>{{cite web | title = Revisit the '86 NLCS | work = ESPN.com | url = https://www.espn.com/page2/s/1986/revisit/nlcs.html | access-date = September 22, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151016061110/http://espn.go.com/page2/s/1986/revisit/nlcs.html | archive-date = October 16, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref> Berra remained a coach in Houston for three more years, retiring after the 1989 season.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Names in the News | newspaper = [[Los Angeles Times]] | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-26-sp-206-story.html | date = September 26, 1989 | access-date = September 22, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923175355/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-26/sports/sp-206_1_houston-astros-coach-yogi-berra | archive-date = September 23, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref> He finished his managerial career with a regular-season record of 484–444 and a playoff record of 9–10.<ref name="managerial record">{{cite web | title = Yogi Berra | publisher = Sports Reference | website = Baseball Reference | url = https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/berrayo01.shtml | access-date = September 23, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924194753/http://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/berrayo01.shtml | archive-date = September 24, 2015 | url-status = live }}</ref>

After George Steinbrenner ventured to Berra's home in New Jersey to apologize in person for having mishandled Berra's firing as Yankee manager, Berra ended his 14-year estrangement from the Yankee organization in 1999 and worked in spring-training camp with catcher [[Jorge Posada]].<ref name=Araton>{{Cite news | title = Posada Is Set to Help, as Berra Helped Him | edition = New York | last = Araton | first = Harvey | newspaper = The New York Times | page = B21 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/sports/baseball/jorge-posada-set-to-help-as-berra-once-helped-him.html?hpw | date = February 21, 2013 | access-date = February 28, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161007075253/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/sports/baseball/jorge-posada-set-to-help-as-berra-once-helped-him.html?hpw | archive-date = October 7, 2016 | url-status = live }}</ref>

====Managerial record====
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular season !! colspan="4"|Postseason
|-
!Games!!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result
|- style="background:#fdd"
![[1964 New York Yankees season|NYY]]|| {{mlby|1964}}
||162||{{WinLossPct|99|63}}|| '''1st in AL''' || {{WinLossPct|3|4}} || Lost [[1964 World Series|World Series]] ([[1964 St. Louis Cardinals season|STL]])
|-
![[1972 New York Mets season|NYM]]|| {{mlby|1972}}
||156||{{WinLossPct|83|73}}|| 3rd in NL East || – || – || – || –
|- style="background:#fdd"
![[1973 New York Mets season|NYM]]|| {{mlby|1973}}
||161||{{WinLossPct|82|79}}|| '''1st in NL East''' || {{WinLossPct|6|6}} || Lost [[1973 World Series|World Series]] ([[1973 Oakland Athletics season|OAK]])
|-
![[1974 New York Mets season|NYM]]|| {{mlby|1974}}
||162||{{WinLossPct|71|91}}|| 5th in NL East || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1975 New York Mets season|NYM]]|| {{mlby|1975}}
||109||{{WinLossPct|56|53}}|| fired || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|NYM total ||588||{{WinLossPct|292|296}}|| || {{WinLossPct|6|6}} ||
|-
![[1984 New York Yankees season|NYY]]|| {{mlby|1984}}
||162||{{WinLossPct|87|75}}|| 3rd in AL East || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1985 New York Yankees season|NYY]]|| {{mlby|1985}}
||16||{{WinLossPct|6|10}}|| fired || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|NYY total ||340||{{WinLossPct|192|148}}|| || {{WinLossPct|3|4}} ||
|-
! colspan="2"|Total<ref name="managerial record" /> ||928||{{WinLossPct|484|444}}|| || {{WinLossPct|9|10}} || 
|}