As a player he hit the foul pole once before that qualified as a home run and so he never hit an HR in the majors, in a very short playing career.

He was a good manager, of course with the 1961 and 1962 Yanks it was a just don’t screw it up situation. After a Series sweep loss in ‘63 (the team was aging but Koufax and Drysdale would have beaten God’s all-stars) he wisely became GM. Leaving Yogi the team and eventually the weird Johnny Keane manager swap after Yogi’s loss as manager in 1964.

George’s first manager, but not near to the last.

The media is not like today but I never heard any degree of negative stuff about Houk. Solid man, solid person. —- R.I.P.

 Now we have to worry about Yogi, he’s not making it to Cooperstown.