Coaching Career
As early as 1948, Hobie Landrith expressed great interest in becoming a baseball general manager. At the Chicago Cubs training camp in Mesa, Arizona, Landrith said that his main ambition was to become a manager, and that he was preparing himself daily for when the time came.
Landrith was in line to become the manager of Leones de Ponce of the Puerto Rico Baseball League in the winter of 1955, but a newer regulation prevented him from being allowed to take the position. In November 1963, Hobie was one of two candidates to become the new bullpen coach for the Baltimore Orioles, but it fell through.
On February 15, 1964, the Washington Senators announced that they hired Landrith as a coach. After the Senators compiled a 62-100 record for the 1964 season, he and Danny O'Connell surprised Senator management when they quit as coaches of the team on January 19, 1965 to each pursue careers in private businesses. Hobie became a public relations worker for Volkswagen in the California, Nevada, and Utah tri-state territory.
In 1998, Landrith, along with Willie Mays, Mike McCormick, Orlando Cepeda, and Dave Righetti were invited to the San Francisco Giants spring training camp as guest instructors.
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