Houston Astros managers and ownership

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This is a list of managers of the U.S. baseball team the Houston Astros.

[edit] Managers

As of September 30, 2007

Manager	Tenure			Record					Finish
	Years	1st Game	Last Game	G	W	L	T	W%	Best	Worst	Post	NL	WS
Harry Craft	2.92	April 10, 1962	September 18, 1964	471	191	280	0	.406	8th	9th	0	0	0
Luman Harris	1.08	September 19, 1964	October 3, 1965	175	70	105	0	.400	9th	9th	0	0	0
Grady Hatton	2.38	April 12, 1966	June 17, 1968	385	164	221	0	.426	8th	10th	0	0	0
Harry Walker	4.41	June 18, 1968	August 25, 1972	708	355	353	0	.501	2nd	10th	0	0	0
Salty Parker	0.007	August 26, 1972	August 26, 1972	1	1	0	0	1.000	2nd	2nd	0	0	0
Leo Durocher	1.20	August 27, 1972	September 30, 1973	193	98	95	0	.508	2nd	4th	0	0	0
Preston Gomez	1.79	April 5, 1974	September 10, 1975	289	128	161	0	.443	4th	6th	0	0	0
Bill Virdon	6.9	September 11, 1975	August 9, 1982	1066	544	522	0	.510	1st	6th	2	0	0
Bob Lillis	3.32	August 10, 1982	October 6, 1985	537	276	261	0	.514	2nd	5th	0	0	0
Hal Lanier	3	April 8, 1986	October 2, 1988	486	254	232	0	.523	1st	5th	1	0	0
Art Howe	5	April 4, 1989	October 3, 1993	810	392	418	0	.484	3rd	6th	0	0	0
Terry Collins	3	April 4, 1994	September 29, 1996	421	224	197	0	.532	2nd	2nd	0	0	0
Larry Dierker	5	April 1, 1997	October 7, 2001	810	448	362	0	.553	1st	4th	4	0	0
Jimy Williams	2.54	April 2, 2002	July 11, 2004	412	215	197	0	.522	2nd	5th	1	0	0
Phil Garner	3.27	July 16, 2004	August 26, 2007	530	277	252	1	.524	2nd	2nd	2	1	0
Cecil Cooper	0.191	August 28, 2007	current	31	15	16	0	.484	4th	4th	0	0	0
Totals	46	April 10, 1962	current	7324	3652	3672	1	.4986	1st	10th	9	1	0

[edit] General Managers

• Paul Richards (1962-65)
• Tal Smith (1965-67)
• Spec Richardson (1967-75)
• John McMullen (1975)
• Tal Smith (1975-80)
• Al Rosen (1980-85)
• Dick Wagner (1985-87)
• Bill Wood (1987-93)
• Bob Watson (1993-95)
• Gerry Hunsicker (1995-2004)
• Tim Purpura (2004-2007)
• Tal Smith (2007)
• Ed Wade (2007- )

[edit] External links

• Houston Astros managerial history

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