Head coaches/managers who won championships as player and head coach.
Goldenage
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Can not be 3rd base coach or defensive coordinators. Head coaches or managers only.
Example. Billy Martin
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Bob Knight
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Ralph
Ditka
Steve Kerr.
Bill Russell.
Bully Cunningham?
Paul Bear Bryant, 1934 as a player, many as a coach.
Tris Speaker won the 1920 World Series as a player/manager for Cleveland.
Ralph Houk, though he wasn’t exactly the driving force behind any of the championships.
Lou Boudreau also player manager of the 1948 INDIANS.
Two more kind of random baseball ones, Alvin Dark and Bob Lemon.
Dave Roberts did it recently
Red Sox as a player
Dodgers as a manager
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Phil Jackson
KC Jones
Pat Riley
Alex Cora
Russell deserves extra credit for coaching the Celtics to two championships while still playing.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Tony Dungy
Tommy Lasorda
Lou Piniella
Dave Roberts
Casey Stengel
Steve
Red Schoendienst
Gil Hodges
I knew one!
Joe Girardi
Just remembered that Tom Heinsohn won 8 as a player and 2 as a coach too.
Eric
Erikthredd’s MJ Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/publishedset/395035
Erikthredd’s Nike Air Jordan Collection: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregistry/basketball/key-card-sets/nike-poster-cards-michael-jordan-1985-1992/alltimeset/408486
Did Terry Crisp win one with the Flyers and coach Calgary to one ?
Bud Wilkinson as a player at Minnesota and as a coach at Oklahoma
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Rick Carlisle
How about two different sports?
I give you Bud Grant.
Won a basketball championship as a player of the 1950 Minneapolis Lakers, coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers for 4 Grey Cups and was the coach of the Vikings for last NFL Champion in 1969 .