Post-managerial Career
Keane is described in Jim Bouton's Ball Four as being prone to panic as a manager and one who was "willing to sacrifice a season to win a game" by putting injured stars into the lineup before their injuries had fully healed. To describe this quality Bouton tells of a somewhat humorous anecdote of Keane pressuring Mickey Mantle to play on a bad leg. But in Keane's defense, Bouton also noted that general manager Houk and the team unfairly used Keane as their excuse for the losing records in 1965 and 1966, which were the result of an aging team with a depleted farm system — not because of Keane.
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