John A. McKeon

(1930- ) lived in Omaha. Professional baseball manager and executive, as manager of five major league teams for 15 seasons, his record is 1011 wins and 940 losses, and his Florida Marlins team won 2003 World Series; previously as manager of Omaha Royals from 1969 to 1972, his teams won two American Association championships; voted by Baseball Writers Association of America as 2003 National League Manager of the Year, the oldest manager in history to earn the award. Consult Omaha Sunday World Herald Magazine of the Midlands, August 19, 1973, pp. 6-7 and Jack McKeon with Tom Friend, Jack of All Trades (Contemporary Books, 1988) and Sports Illustrated, October 27, 2003, pp. 50-55 and Current Biography (2004) 365-369.

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