Wally Backman Done Managing For Peanuts

Richie Rich posted 8/8/2007 from lioninoil.blogspot.com [flag]

Wally Backman's first step back to managing in the big leagues was with the South Georgia Peanuts. After three suspensions and lots of outbursts, his quest may be over. [link]

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You Create The Caption #57
Published 8/8/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Wally Backman is Officially Nuts (Lion In Oil) ...

Backman Turner Overdrive
Published 8/9/2007 by StatsGuru at Baseball Musings
Wally Backman can't even last as a manager in an independent league. Lion in Oil charts the decline and notes: The biggest thing that comes to mind with all of this is: what if? What if Backman had not been fired by the Diamondbacks, and been allowed to manage? Simply said, it would have been amazing. Ozzie Guillen would have nothing on this guy, and the blogosphere would have had daily material. That being said, it probably wouldn't have been a good atmosphere for Arizona's plethora of prospects. However, his independent league team was winning big. Wally might have turned out to be a more intense Billy Martin at the big league level, but Billy also tended to turn teams into winners. You just had to be willing to accept the negatives that went along with that, including burning out a pitching staff.

Happenings and Mishappenings: Hurry
Published 8/9/2007 by Luke Halpert at Nyjer Please
... Wally Backman resigned as manager of that independent league team. - Lion in Oil ...

Note: Wally Backman and the Mets
Published 5/16/2008 by Matthew Cerrone at MetsBlog.com
... I understand why some fans want to make him an icon, or want to believe his passion is a good thing. However, fact is, there are hundreds and hundreds of professional baseball teams and he has been unable to latch on to any of them. I mean, he quit the only job he could get, which was managing an Independent League team. Add these things together, plus consider this record, and I can’t see him back at Shea. ...

Playing for Peanuts: Random Update 6-15-08
Published 6/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (John Fitzgerald) at Playing for Peanuts Blog
... . The article does a very fair and accurate job explaining how many things that you see in "Playing for Peanuts" were misreported by the national meda. Incidentally, those reports were neatly compiled in Lion in Oil with absolutely no regard for whether or not those reports were true. ...

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