Ralph Houk

Ralph George Houk, nicknamed "the Major", was an American catcher, coach, manager, and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He is best known as the successor of Casey Stengel as manager of the New York Yankees from 1961 to 1963, when his teams won three consecutive American League pennants and the 1961 and 1962 World Series championships. In 1961 he became the second rookie manager to win 100 games in a season and third rookie manager to win a World Series. He was the first manager to win World Series titles in his first two seasons and the first manager since Hughie Jennings to win three pennants in his first three seasons.

9 August 1919

Born on the same birth date (9 August 1919): Joop den Uyl

Born on the same birth day (9 August): Albert Seedman • Arnold Fitz Thedmar • Barton Lynch • Bogislaw XIII • Dorothea Klumpke • Leonid Kuchma • Nitin Chandrakant Desai • Wilbur Norman Christiansen

Born in the same month (August 1919): Adamantios Androutsopoulos • Dino De Laurentiis • Enrique Llanes • George Shearing • George Wallace • Godfrey Hounsfield • J. Gordon Edwards (entomologist) • Jaap Rijks • John David Wilson • Malcolm Forbes • Margaret Burbidge • Maurice Hilleman • Murray Grand • Nehemiah Persoff • Pauline Betz • Pee Wee Butts • Rex Humbard • Stanley Middleton • Vikram Sarabhai • Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin • Wally Hickel • Walter Bernstein • Wolfgang Wagner