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Expert: Geoff Date: 8/17/2007 Subject: player ejections
Question Bobby Cox just broke John McGraw's record for manager ejections. (Actually, he already had the record since McGraw had been tossed ten times as a player) But this begs the question, Who holds the ejection record as a player?
Answer Hi Mark,
Thanks for writing.
Records for ejections seem a little fuzzy - not quite an exact science - but this link:
seems to have a very credible sense to it. It awards the record of most player ejections to Bill Dahlen. History knows(?) he was ejected 65 times during a lengthy playing career (1891-1911) and a fairly brief managing career (1910-1913), but doesn't seem to have exact details on how many of those 65 were as a player and how many as a manager (to complicate things more, he was a player manager briefly as well).
