Trivia - 9/4/2015

The Manager of the Year awards started in 1983. Who is the only manager to win the award in their league in back-to-back years?

I have no idea, but my guess would be Tony LaRussa.

Usually this award goes to a manager who has had surprising success, so if the manager wins again next year, it's not a surprise. That makes it hard to win this award consecutively.

I'm pretty sure Joe Torre won in 1996 and 1998, but that's not two years in a row. He skipped a year. In '96 he won for his suprising World Series win with the underdog Yankees. After that, the Yanks were not underdogs. In '98, he won (I think) because the Yankees were just so darned good, with 114 wins, that it was hard not to give it to him.

Could it be Bobby Cox? He made the playoffs a whole lot of time in a row. But if so, I would have no idea which years.

It is Bobby Cox in 2004 and 2005.

Well, he would've been my 2nd guess! Hindsite is always 20/20

Mike