https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.173913.3 Following a squandered victory at St. Louis on April 28, 1949, rookie Tiger manager Red Rolfe recorded: “Poor ...
Briggs Sr., surprised nearly everybody by signing up quiet, efficient Red Rolfe, 40, the old Yankees’ onetime third-baseman. Rolfe, who is head of the Tigers’ farm system, has never managed a ...