Jack Tighe | |
Team: | Detroit Tigers |
Position: | Catcher / Manager |
Birth Date: | 9 August 1913 |
Birth Place: | Kearny, New Jersey, U.S. |
Death Place: | Pompano Beach, Florida, U.S. |
Debutleague: | Middle Atlantic League |
Debutyear: | 1936 |
Debutteam: | Charleston Senators |
Statleague: | MLB |
Stat1label: | Win - loss record |
Stat1value: | 99–104 |
Stat2label: | Winning % |
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John Thomas Tighe (–), pronounced "tie", was an American minor league baseball player and a coach, manager and scout for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball.
Born in Kearny, New Jersey, Tighe joined the professional ranks in 1936 as a catcher with the Charleston Senators,[1] a Detroit farm club in the Class C Middle Atlantic League. A right-handed batter listed as 5feet tall and, he rose no further as a player than Class A-1 (now Double-A), two levels below the major leagues, with the Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League in 1938–39.
The following season, Tighe became a manager in the minor leagues.
In 1940 and 1941, Tighe was player-manager of the Muskegon Clippers, a Michigan State League Tigers farm club.[1]
He was a Detroit coach for the latter half of the 1942 American League season, then resumed his minor league managerial career from 1944 to 1953.[2]
In 1948, Tighe was assigned to be the first manager of the Flint Arrows in the Central League.[3]
He was again named to the coaching staff of the Tigers for 1955–56, replacing his boss, Bucky Harris, as Detroit's manager following the 1956 season. Tighe led the Tigers to a 78–76, fourth-place finish in, although when Detroit faltered (21–28) early on during the campaign, he was released in favor of Bill Norman.[1] Tighe's career managing record: 99 wins, 104 defeats (.488).
He later managed and scouted in the Milwaukee Braves organization before returning to the Tigers' farm system, winning the 1967 Governors' Cup championship[4] and the 1968 International League regular season championship at the helm of the Toledo Mud Hens.[1] He served full-time with the Detroit Tigers system until 1982 then under various capacities until 1990.[1]
Jack Tighe died at age 88 on, eight days short of his 89th birthday, in Pompano Beach, Florida.[1]
Team | Year | Regular season | Postseason | |||||||
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Games | Won | Lost | Win % | Finish | Won | Lost | Win % | Result | ||
DET | 154 | – | – | – | ||||||
DET | 49 | 8th in AL Fired June 9 | – | – | – | |||||
Total | 203 |