Coaching Career
Menke started his coaching career as a manager in 1977 with the Burlington Bees of the Midwest League, a farm team of the Milwaukee Brewers. The Bees won the League Championship that season in a three game play-off against the Waterloo Indians. The following year he managed the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League, with 59 wins and 89 losses. The next year (1979) his record was 68 wins and 69 losses.
For the years 1980 and 1981 he was the first base coach for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Menke returned to the Astros as a hitting coach in 1983 and continued in that position until moving to third base coach in 1988.
In 1989 he joined the Philadelphia Phillies as the hitting coach and continued in that position until 1996. In 1993 the Philles lost to the Blue Jays in the World Series.
Menke finished his coaching career returning to the Cincinnati Reds as the bench coach for the years 1997–2000.
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