Boston Braves Managers

This is a comprehensive list of managers for the Boston Braves organization. Win / loss statistics, winning percentage, position in division, and games behind the leader are also shown for each manager.

"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits." - Casey Stengel
Boston Braves Managers
1912 - 1935

Managers & Finishes

Year Uniform # Manager(s) Wins Losses WP Finish GB
1912

n/a

Johnny Kling

52 101 .340 8th 52
1913

n/a

George Stallings

69 82 .457 5th 31½
1914

n/a

94 59 .614 1st +10½
1915

n/a

83 69 .546 2nd 7
1916

n/a

89 63 .586 3rd 4
1917

n/a

72 81 .471 6th 25½
1918

n/a

53 71 .427 7th 28½
1919

n/a

57 82 .410 6th 38½
1920

n/a

62 90 .408 7th 30
1921

n/a

Fred Mitchell

79 74 .516 4th 15
1922

n/a

53 100 .346 8th 39½
1923

n/a

54 100 .351 7th 41½
1924

n/a

Dave Bancroft

53 100 .346 8th 40
1925

n/a

70 83 .458 5th 25
1926

n/a

66 86 .434 7th 22
1927

n/a

60 94 .390 7th 34
1928

n/a

Jack Slattery

11 20 .355 7th 44½

n/a

Rogers Hornsby

39 83 .320
1929

n/a

Emil Fuchs

56 98 .364 8th 43
1930

n/a

Bill McKechnie

70 84 .455 6th 22
1931

n/a

64 90 .416 7th 37
1932

34

77 77 .500 5th 13
1933

33

83 71 .539 4th 9
1934

33

78 73 .517 4th 16
1935

33

38 115 .248 8th 61½

Boston Braves Managers & Finishes



The Braves franchise began in 1876 in Boston, moved to a Milwaukee in 1953, and came to a stop in Atlanta in 1966. Over the course of a century-plus they have seen three cities and many different official names. All their stats, schedules, uniform numbers, and history can be found on the Atlanta Braves team page and posted below is a chart with links to their managerial pages:

Boston Red Caps

1876-1882

Boston Beaneaters

1883-1906

Boston Doves

1907-1910

Boston Rustlers

1911-1911

Boston Braves

1912-1935

Boston Bees

1936-1940

Boston Braves

1941-1952

Milwaukee Braves

1953-1965

Atlanta Braves

1966-Today

During the 1948 regular season the Boston Braves (1941-1952 "version") had their largest attendance when 1,455,439 fans attended games at Brave Field.

Did you know that on April 16, 193, the Boston Braves had a team record 25,000 fans attend an Opening Day game?

     

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