Ed Nottle

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4+1⁄2 years. Nottle led New Britain to the playoffs once and twice took Pawtucket to the postseason. He was named International League Manager of the Year in 1987 and managed the American League affiliates in the inaugural Triple-A All-Star Classic in Buffalo in 1988.

Nottle managed the inaugural season with the Sioux City Explorers of the Northern League in 1993 and stayed with them through the 2000 season. In his eight seasons, he amassed a regular-season record of 343 wins and 318 losses and made the playoffs in 1994 and 1999. Nottle managed the Duluth–Superior Dukes for one season before moving on to the Brockton Rox of the then-Northern League East in 2002. With the Rox, he compiled a 187–175 record and won a championship in 2003. For the 2006 season, Nottle returned to his old post as the Explorer's manager in their inaugural year in the American Association.

Nottle returned to the former Northeast (now Can-Am League) in 2008 as he became the first manager of the expansion Ottawa Rapidz, but after a very poor start to the season, followed by a hot streak that came when Nottle left the team briefly to visit his sick wife, the team's management fired him on July 31, 2008.

In 2010, in Nottle's 50th year in professional baseball, he served as pitching and third base coach on Chris Carminucci's staff with the Brockton Rox of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball. Nottle helped guide the Rox to the second-best overall record in the league, and another playoff appearance.

Personal life

Nicknamed "Singin Ed", [2] Nottle is famous for his charitable work both in the U.S. and Canada. He has raised over several million dollars for various charities (mainly focused on children).[ citation needed ]

There has been talk of a movie of Nottle's life, called The 26th Man. [3] It was supposed to be in production in late 2007, but the financial capital never materialized to finance the project; the screenplay is ready to go, awaiting a new production company.[ citation needed ]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Nottle excited about opener". The Bulletin . 14 June 1978. p. 12. Retrieved 12 July 2010.
  2. ↑ Farley, Glen (Jun 10, 2008). "Happy returns for Nottle". The Enterprise . Brockton, Massachusetts . Retrieved June 1, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Ed Nottle suddenly has to find something to do other than baseball". Evansville Courier & Press . Evansville, Indiana. April 22, 2012. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2017– via Wayback Machine.

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Ed Nottle
Relief pitcher/Coach
Born: (1939-10-22) October 22, 1939 (age 84)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Preceded by Pawtucket Red Sox manager
1986 – June 1990		Succeeded by
Preceded by
First Manager
 Ottawa Rapidz manager
2008		Succeeded by
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