 After two years with the Santa Barbara Dodgers (Class C, California League), Scherger managed the Newport News Dodgers (Class B, Piedmont League) to win the 1954 playoff championship and the 1955 regular season pennant.He played his final season in 1956 with the Cedar Rapids Raiders of the Illinois–Indiana–Iowa League.Scherger left baseball after 1956, choosing to settle with his family in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he worked in a supermarket.