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- After his playing days were over, Mel
- managed the Giants for about six and a
- half seasons, during which the team
- had a 464-530 record. Mel had been
- considered one of the nicest men in
- baseball. Some people felt MelΓÇÖs
- pleasant personality kept him from
- becoming a winning manager. In fact,
- Dodger manager Leo Durocher once
- said of MelΓÇÖs Giants, "The nice guys over
- there are in last place." (Leo later titled
- his autobiography, Nice Guys Finish
- Last.) Mel tried to change his image,
- and in 1946 he became the first
- manager ever to be thrown out of both
- games of a doubleheader.