John E. Boles, Jr. is an American professional baseball front-office executive, and a former manager in Major League Baseball and college baseball head coach. As of 2013, he is the senior adviser to the general manager for player development for the Kansas City Royals. Boles spent two terms ? 1996, and 1999 through May 28, 2001 ? as manager of the Florida Marlins, compiling a win-loss record of 205?241. He's also served two separate terms as a member of the Royals' front office, in addition to executive positions with the Marlins, Montreal Expos, Los Angeles Dodgers and Seattle Mariners, and was a minor league manager in both the Chicago White Sox and Royals organizations. [More at Wikipedia]

August 19th, 1948 in (Age 76)