Bobby Cox team featured such future major leaguers as Ron Guidry, Mickey Klutts, Terry Whitfield and Juan Bernhardt. Overall, Cox had a highly successful six-year tenure as a minor league manager, compiling a record of 459 wins and 387 defeats (.543) with two league championships. He then spent the 1977 season as the first base coach on Billy Martin's staff with the World Series–winning Yankees before beginning his MLB managerial career. Cox replaced Dave Bristol as the manager of the Atlanta Braves prior to the 1978 season, inheriting a team that had finished last in the league during the previous two seasons
Panamanian Professional Baseball League Panamanian Professional Baseball League The Panamanian Professional Baseball League (), currently known as Probeis, is a winter professional baseball league consisting of four teams. Founded in 1946, the PPBL joined Organized Baseball in 1948 and operated continuously until 1972.<br> A new Panamanian baseball league started the 2001–02 season as Probeis ("Liga Profesional de Béisbol de Panamá"), but it lasted that season only. By 2010, Los Angeles Dodgers related businessmen restarted the league as LPB (Professional Baseball League), but had poor logistics and operations lasted only one season.<br>In 2011 Probeis made its second run since 2001. The league's champion team played