DICK SISLER 1965 Cincinnati Reds Manager Fired Vintage News Wire Photo

DATE SHOT: 10-4-1965

SUBJECT: Dick Sisler

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8"x10"

MARKS / STAMPING: Associated Press Wirephoto stamp. Caption is embedded in the obverse image as is typical with wire photos.

ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 3 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, within about 2 years of when it was shot

COMMENTS / CONDITION: DICK SISLER, FIRED, EXPLAINS---CINCINNATI: Dick Sisler, "terribly disappointed and sorry" at being fired today as manager of Cincinnati's Reds, answered many a phone call in his hotel suite today as news of his dismissal spread. With all, he waxed philosophical: "It may be all for the best," he told one caller.

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BIO: Richard Allan Sisler was born in 1920 in St. Louis, MO and died in 1998 in Nashville, TN. He played major league baseball from 1946 to 1953 as 1st baseman and outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, appeared in the 1946 and 1950 World Series, and was selected in 1950 as an All-Star. Dick Sisler, the son of George Sisler, had a respectable baseball career in his own right. He and his father are one of only two pairs of fathers and sons who both were big league managers. Sisler was a Reds coach from 1961 to 1964. He managed the Cincinnati Reds for part of 1964 when he took over for an ailing Fred Hutchinson and for all of 1965. His brother Dave Sisler also played in the major leagues for seven years as a pitcher, and his other brother, George Sisler Jr., was involved in minor league baseball for decades.

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Item: L11243

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DICK SISLER 1965 Cincinnati Reds Manager Fired Vintage News Wire Photo
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