Longtime Employee of Senators and Twins
Most of Ermer's 60-plus-year career in baseball was spent as an employee of the Minnesota Twins and its predecessor franchise (before 1961), the Washington Senators. His only major league game as a player, on September 26, 1947, came with Washington; he was hitless in three at bats and handled seven fielding chances flawlessly as a second baseman. Ermer then played and managed in the club's farm system, handling Senators/Twins farm clubs over five different decades: 1947; 1950–57; 1965–67; 1974–76; 1978-85.
During his managing career, he also served as a skipper in the minor league systems of the Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees, and in 1958 won The Sporting News Minor League Manager of the Year award while with the Birmingham Barons, then a farm team of the Detroit Tigers.
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