In 1928, Joe McCarthy managed a Chicago Cubs team that went 98-54, good for a .645 winning percentage. The Cubs won the National League pennant that year by 10 1/2 games. If a National League manager of the year vote were held after the regular season, surely McCarthy would have been the favorite.
Or maybe not. A mere nine years earlier, Fred Mitchell guided the Cubs to an 84-45 record, good for a .651 winning percentage in a season shortened due to World War I. Eight years before that, player/manager Frank Chance led the 1910 Cubs to a .