ishment. The next two following seasons, Toronto still improved their record to a winning one with 89 wins to 73 losses which gave them seventh place. With one more win would have given the team a 1985 World Series first.From Toronto, Cox returned to Atlanta. In October of 1985, he was the General Manager with lots of different responsibilities. This time around he was to supervise a farm team giving us some of our superstars today. Also, accumulating the right to manage the field starting in June of '90. John Schuerholz was then given the General Manager spot in October of '90. Since then Bobby Cox has been the field manager for the best team of the nineties.The Braves went from worst to first and have even brought Brave fans a desired World Championship. Throughout his ten-year stay with the famed Atlanta team he's won eight straight Division titles with the exception of 1994 because of the baseball strike. They've also been in 5 World Series but only came out with one win. In 1992 he lost in the World Series to none other than the Toronto Blue Jays. His post-season record of 43 to 36 and a .544 winning percentage. That gives Bobby Cox the most wins in the post season by a manager. He has more wins than such great managers as Casey Stengel and Tommy Lasorda. Yet still, he has only been recognized once as a tremendous manager. He won National League Manger of The Year in 1991.So far in Atlanta, Cox has racked up a record of 957 wins and 797 losses equaling out to a .543 winning percentage. On June 17 in 1997 he gained his 900th National League victory. The Braves have won more games than any other team in the major leagues in the past decade, which makes Cox the winningest Braves manager of all time.All the wins do not make Bobby Cox a successful coach. Building teams up from the floor accounts for some of the recognition but there's more. Cox runs a good, clean ball club. He has certain rules that are old fashion an...
