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
Bobby Etheridge (baseball) or Baseball Almanac, or The Baseball Page Bobby Etheridge (baseball) Bobby Lamar Etheridge (November 25, 1941 – September 17, 2015) was a professional baseball third baseman. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants. Etheridge played baseball at Mississippi State University for two seasons before signing with the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in . After three seasons in the Giants' farm system, he made his major league debut on July 16, in the first game of a doubleheader against the Chicago Cubs at Candlestick Park as a late inning