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After a 9-year Major League playing career, Bruce Bochy embarked on a managerial journey that will likely lead him to the Hall of Fame. His first year helming a club came in 1995 with the San Diego Padres. In ’96 he guided them to the Western Division Championship.

Two years later Bochy guided the Friars won a franchise-record 98 victories. In the National League Divisional Series the Pads topped the Houston Astros 3-games-to-1. San Diego beat the Braves in the NLCS to earn the franchise’s second trip to the Fall Classic. Though they were swept away by Joe Torre’s Yankees in the World Series, many consider the ’98 campaign the most successful in team history.

His time in America’s Finest City included four divisional championships and a National League pennant. Managing the club from 1995-2006 Bochy recorded a franchise record 951 wins and 33 ejections as a manager.

Shown here is a lineup card from July 14, 1995, the 71st game of Bochy’s first year as a pilot of a big league team. Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine earned his 117th career victory, beating Bochy’s Padres 6-2. Bochy’s handwriting is throughout and his signature is at the bottom of the card.

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When Bruce Bochy guided San Francisco to the World Series title in 2010, it was the the Giants first since 1954. Pennant winning skippers earn the right to sit in the dugout the following summer as managers of the All Star game.

In the collection is this official document that Bruce Bochy signed as pilot of the NL team in the 2011 Midsummer Classic. With the roof closed at Bank One Ballpark in Arizona, Bochy’s squad bested the AL club 5-1.

Bochy never made an All Star team during his nine-year playing career but did manage the NL club in the Mid Summer Classic four times.

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There’s no greater measurement of success than winning the last game of the season as World Series champion. Bruce Bochy’s San Francisco Giants did it three times in six years.

So difficult is the achievement as a manager that only ten skippers in baseball history have as many as three titles.

Along with Bochy, Tony LaRussa, Sparky Anderson, Miller Huggins, John McGraw have three. Ahead of them are Joe Torre and Walt Alston with four each, Connie Mack with 5, and Yankee skippers Casey Stengel and Joe McCarthy with 7.

All are in the Hall of Fame.

Bochy will get his plaque someday and join Mack and Bucky Harris as the managers with losing records in Cooperstown.

In the collection is this lineup card signed by Bochy during his final season as a big league manager. Dated May 1, 2019, the card shows former World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner on the hill.

Bumgarner’s performances on baseball’s biggest stage are legendary. In five Fall Classic appearances, he went 4-0 with one save and a 0.25 earned run average.

Though Mad Bum didn’t pick up the victory this night, the Giants and Bochy scored a walk-off win with two out in the ninth against the rival Dodgers.

It was Bochy’s 1,939 win of his career. He finished with 2,003 for his career, good for 11th place on the all-time list.