If you said the first manager of an MLB team to win a World Series was a manager of a Yankees team, you were wrong. It was Bucky Harris as player/manager of the Washington Senators in 1924.
Harris played most of his career as a second baseman with the Senators (1919–28). In 1924, he was named player/manager; at the age of 27, he was the youngest manager in the majors. Nicknamed the
Nicknamed the Boy Wonder, he won the Senators only World Series title that year against the New York Giants.